Mehmet Oz, Dave McCormick neck and neck in Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate primary

Superstar physician Mehmet Oz and Dave McCormick are neck and neck with Kathy Barnette trailing behind by greater than 76,000 votes.

As of 11 p.m. with 99% of the estimated vote counted, McCormick leads by 337,797 votes whereas Oz holds 335,314 votes. Barnette holds 261,299 complete votes.

Oz had been locked in an costly battle with former hedge fund govt McCormick. However political commentator Barnette, who has drawn the help of Trump backers suspicious of Oz’s ideological shifts, shocked the political world with a late surge that upended the race within the ultimate weeks as she tries to change into the primary Black Republican girl elected to the Senate.

The competition to interchange retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey, which may very well be Democrats’ greatest probability of flipping a seat this fall, has earned probably the most consideration. It won’t solely check the facility of Trump’s endorsement by way of Oz, but in addition whether or not the MAGA motion he created is starting to outrun him as candidates like Barnette declare that label even with out the previous President’s backing. In his ultimate efforts to provoke help for Oz, Trump argued that Barnette is an unvetted, political unknown who may lead the GOP to a loss in November.

However Barnette, who argued in a single debate that the MAGA label doesn’t belong to Trump, has not been shy about placing again. On Monday, she mentioned that she is ready to “get folks Donald Trump was not capable of get” and claimed to be extra electable than him based mostly on the outcomes of her earlier congressional race, which she misplaced.