PENNSYLVANIA, USA — It's a new venue for the contest for the Republican nomination for United States Senate in Pennsylvania. A new battleground for the race between Dr. Mehmet Oz and David McCormick.
The race between Oz and McCormick is still too close to call. So, now the battle moves to court.
McCormick is suing to make sure counties obey a new federal appeals court decision. That decision forces counties to promptly count mail-in ballots that don't have the necessary handwritten date on the return envelope.
It's believed that the court decision is a bonus for McCormick because he has been doing better than oz when it comes to mail-in ballots.
The latest numbers, released Monday night, show Oz leads McCormick by just 992 votes. That is out of 1.3 million votes cast.
The race is close enough to trigger Pennsylvania's automatic recount law.
We could get a better feel for the race later on Tuesday. It's the deadline for all 67 counties to report unofficial results to the state, and that includes the number of ballots yet to be counted.
The state rules on the automatic re-count Thursday. The Wolf administration says it will issue guidance as to how counties should proceed. There's nothing out yet.
It is possible we won't know the winner until the official deadline to certify the vote, and that is June 8, 2022.
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