What Went Down During The May 17 Primary Elections

Let’s all take a minute to just appreciate that Summer Lee started out tonight in Pennsylvania’s 12th District down by 21 percentage points.

I’ve also been looking at Oz’s areas of strength in Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate primary, and some of what we’re seeing makes quite a lot of sense once you consider that Trump endorsed him. Oz’s best counties include Lackawanna and Luzerne in northeast Pennsylvania, as well as Fayette County and Greene County in the southwest corner of the state. These are places with ancestral Democratic leanings and lots of blue-collar white voters that have swung sharply to the right in the Trump era (although Lackawanna, home to Scranton, does remain Democratic-leaning overall).

I know I said at the beginning of the night that that Lancaster County snafu probably wouldn’t delay a call, but … only 8,077 votes separate Oz and McCormick right now. I don’t know how many of the 21,000 faulty ballots are Republican, but the race may very well come down to them.