Dynamic GOP primary in Pennsylvania
Primary election season continues Tuesday with party contests in Idaho, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oregon and Pennsylvania.
In Pennsylvania, a U.S. Senate seat is being vacated by Republican Pat Toomey, and both the GOP and Democrats think they can win it. In the Republican primary, former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have been ramping up attacks on Kathy Barnette. She is a political novice who has raised a fraction of the money of her well-heeled rivals – hedge fund magnate David McCormick and television doctor Mehmet Oz – yet is surging in the polls.
Barnette, a fierce opponent of abortion, gun control and universal health care, has spent much of her campaign attacking some of the Democratic Party’s most influential leaders. And in her book titled, “Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain: Being Black and Conservative in America,” Barnette argues that liberal polices have failed Black Americans.