Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate primary is headed for a recount, with the last remaining votes tallied and Mehmet Oz and Dave McCormick still separated by a razor-thin margin.
that undated ballots should be counted in a previous election, has advised counties to count undated and incorrectly dated absentee ballots while separating them from other votes, pending the outcome of legal challenges.There are 860 undated ballots from 65 of the 67 counties that have reported that data to the state, Chapman said.
Given the Senate’s current 50-50 split, and Pennsylvania’s reputation for close elections, the fall contest will be among the nation’s most closely watched races. An Oz loss would be a blow to Trump, who rallied behind the former daytime talk show host even as McCormick surrounded himself with acolytes of the former president and established himself as a top-tier candidate. Trump’s midterm-year endorsements are being tracked closely as a sign of his influence and staying power within the GOP ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Trump, who continues to falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen from him, has cast unfounded suspicions on Pennsylvania’s primary vote counting and urged Oz to prematurely declare victory last week. “It makes it much harder for them to cheat with the ballots that they ‘just happened to find,’ Trump posted to Truth Social, his new social media site, the day after the primary, as legally cast votes continued to be tallied.
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