Lancaster, Pa. – The GOP Senate contest in Pennsylvania ended Tuesday without a clear winner as the vote count showed Dave McCormick and Mehmet Oz in a very close-to-call field.
No outlet has called out the race, and neither has the campaign acknowledged. If the final margin of victory is less than 0.5%, it is possible that the vote may go into compulsory recounting.
McCormick, a former hedge fund executive, was leading Donald Trump-backed TV Doc Oz, by a fraction of a percent on Wednesday.
Kathy Barnett, a staunchly conservative commentator who had been trailing Oz and McCormick throughout the evening, did not admit to her election night party either. But late in the evening, she signaled it was over, acknowledged her supporters who were dancing with two giant screens presenting Fox News in the background. Barnett, who had a surprise turnout in the polls, is expected to finish third.
“Don’t be discouraged because we have a country to save. The leftists have shown they’re not playing with us,” Barnett said, inside a catering-hall barn at a cryptic event center. “To snatch the election from me, they lied and they did a lot.”
McCormick and Oz spent millions of dollars attacking each other in TV commercials, making the contest for the Republican nomination the most expensive in the country.
Tuesday’s lack of immediate results doesn’t bode particularly well for Trump, whose support isn’t a definite rubber stamp for the Republican nomination. Oz and McCormick both faced questions about his Pennsylvania residence, entanglement with China, and his conservative credentials.
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