What Went Down During The May 17 Primary Elections

Nathaniel Rakich

According to The New York Times, the counties with the most votes left to count in Pennsylvania are one Oz county (Bucks) and one McCormick county (Delaware).

Geoffrey Skelley

11:49 pm

We’ve got 84 percent of the vote in from the GOP primary for Senate in Pennsylvania, and it’s a true-blue nail biter. McCormick leads by just 0.2 percentage points over Oz, 31.3 percent to 31.1 percent. Slightly more than half the remaining expected vote seems set to come from the Philadelphia area. And fact is, there are thousands of mail ballots left to count. So it could be a bit before we know who has won here.

Mail ballots are a *much* smaller share of the GOP primary than the Dem, but there are 35k+ yet to be counted statewide – many in counties that say they won’t get to them until tomorrow.

So far, McCormick leads Oz by 9 in mail ballots – *but* those were the earliest-arriving…
— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) May 18, 2022

Jacob Rubashkin

11:46 pm

In North Carolina’s 1st District, AP has called the GOP primary for Sandy Smith, who ran for this seat unsuccessfully in 2020. (ABC News has yet to call the race.) She’s the candidate Republican leadership wanted to avoid given her personal baggage, and she’ll start as an underdog in the Democratic-leaning district against state Sen. Don Davis, who won his primary convincingly tonight.

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