A Democratic win in The Senate:
Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the unconventional, tattooed figure into whom Democrats poured their hopes of preserving their tenuous hold on the Senate, defeated Mehmet Oz to capture Pennsylvania’s Senate race on Tuesday, according to New York Times projections, flipping a seat that had been in Republican hands.
This had been Sen. Pat Toomey's seat.
As of this writing (bet on this changing) the NYTimes has Fetterman up 2,587,382 (50.2%) to 2,441,145 (47.4%) votes. A difference of about 146,000. That's with 94% of the votes in. Expect the numbers to shift a bit.
Now let's look at the race that God himself involved himself in.
Back in April, before the primaries, St Sen (and now failed GOP cand. for PA Gov) said a few words at a QAnon rally called "Patriots Arise." And this is what he said. This is what Doug Mastriano said:
Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano told the QAnon "Patriots Arise" event last weekend that he'll win election in November because "my God will make it so." And once he does, Mastriano promised to make Florida look like "amateur hour." https://t.co/MBqq24ad1a pic.twitter.com/mNDiEXkXDv
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) April 26, 2022
Well, something got in the Almighty's way yesterday:
Josh Shapiro, a Democrat and Pennsylvania’s attorney general, won the governor’s race in the state early Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. He defeated Doug Mastriano, a Republican who was central to efforts to overturn Pennsylvania’s 2020 election results.
This had been Gov. Tom Wolf's seat.
As of this writing, the Times has Shapiro up 2,862,252 (55.5%) to 2,199,592 (42.7%) votes. All the caveats from above hold here. Expect these numbers to shift a tad (or a skosh, depending). It's a difference of about 662,000 votes with 93% of the votes in.
Of course election denier Doug is going this route:
Election denier and far-right state Sen. Doug Mastriano refused to concede the gubernatorial race in Pennsylvania late Tuesday, despite most major networks calling him the loser before midnight.
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro had a gargantuan lead of more than 11 points over Mastriano with about 80 percent of votes counted by midnight, according to the Associated Press. Most major outlets called the race for Shapiro, including AP, NBC News, Fox News and CNN.
But Mastriano wasn’t having it. “There’s about 30 percent of the votes still to go, we’ve got a ways to go,” he told supporters. “Have faith, we’re gonna, uh, of course, we’re gonna have faith and have patience. We’re gonna wait until every vote counts, right?”
I dunno. 600,000 votes is a yuge number to overcome with only 7% (or so) of the votes yet to be counted.
