Recount Likely In Pennsylvania GOP Senate Primary

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports:

Pennsylvania’s Republican Senate primary was still undecided Wednesday, with celebrity surgeon Mehmet Oz clinging to a narrow lead of about 2,500 votes over David McCormick. But with thousands or even tens of thousands of votes still to be counted (including both some in-person votes and mail ballots), it was unclear who would have the edge once the initial count was complete.

Either way, it appeared very likely the race would go to an automatic recount, which happens if the winning margin is less than 0.5% of the total votes cast. And even though the number of uncounted votes is likely in the tens of thousands, the voting patterns so far — showing an almost even amount of support for Oz and McCormick — suggest that neither of them is likely to suddenly run away with the race.

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To avoid a recount, one of the candidates would have to pull ahead by close to 7k votes.

Oz leads right now by about 2,500https://t.co/Gw5ZHU3nzs

— Jonathan Tamari (@JonathanTamari) May 18, 2022