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Pennsylvania Primary election results for Susquehanna Valley city races

Pennsylvania Primary election results for Susquehanna Valley city races
RACE JERRY. ALL RIGHT, LORI, THANK YOU. WE NOW RETURN TO HARRISBURG, WHERE THERE ARE ONLY DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES CURRENTLY IN THE RACE FOR CITY COUNCIL, THE TOP THREE HERE IN THE PRIMARY. WE’LL MOVE ON TO THE GENERAL ELECTION ON NOVEMBER 7TH. SO LET’S TAKE A LOOK HERE. 100% OF THE PRECINCTS REPORTING. DANIEL BOWERS, CRYSTAL DAVIS AND LAMONT JONES ARE YOUR TOP THREE. BUT AGAIN, TAKE A LOOK. THEY’RE CALLED GOODMAN IN FOURTH. IT’S CLOSE. LAMONT JONES WITH 16 1.1%. COLE GOODMAN’S 15.7%. NEWSDAY’S TOM LEHMAN CONTINUES OUR LIVE TEAM COVERAGE. BOY, TOM, THAT’S A CLOSE RACE THERE FOR THIRD. YEAH, YOU KNOW, JERRY, IT REALLY IS. AND AS YOU MENTIONED, 100% VOTING PRECINCTS REPORTING HERE. EXCUSE ME IF I CAN GET THE WORDS OUT, BUT WHAT WE ARE APPARENTLY SEEING IS THAT CRYSTAL DAVIS, DANIEL BOWERS, THE INCUMBENT COUNCIL PRESIDENT, AND LAMONT JONES WOULD BE HEADED TO THE GENERAL ACTION. AND FRANKLY, IN ALL LIKELIHOOD, BASED ON HISTORY, HEADING TO REPRESENT PEOPLE HERE AT CITY HALL AS PART OF THE CITY COUNCIL. JONES AS YOU JUST MENTIONED, IN LIKE THE LAST 25 MINUTES OR SO, IS WE’VE BEEN KEEPING TABS ON THIS RACE, WAS ABLE TO PULL AHEAD OF COLE GOODMAN BY LESS THAN 40 VOTES. NOW, THROUGHOUT THE DAY, WE HAVE SEEN VOTERS VISITING POLLING PLACES LIKE SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL IN UPTOWN HARRISBURG AND AND THIS IS A SITUATION WHERE CANDIDATES FOR MONTHS NOW HAVE BEEN TRYING TO SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM EACH OTHER TO GET INTO THAT TOP THREE THRESHOLD SO THAT THEY CAN MOVE ON IN THE PRIMARY AND THEN GET TO THE GENERAL ELECTION. WE TALKED WITH FORMER CITY COUNCILMAN DAVE MADSEN, A CURRENT STATE REPRESENTATIVE. HE SAID THAT GETTING THROUGH THIS PROCESS IS NOT NECESSARILY A MATTER OF TRYING TO GET FIRST PLACE. IF YOU FINISH THIRD, EVERYWHERE YOU WIN OFTENTIMES. SO SOMETIMES THOSE CANDIDATES THAT GET IN AND FRANKLY, I THINK IT’S WHAT FAVORS A LOT OF INCUMBENTS IS BECAUSE, WELL, UNLESS EVERYONE’S REALLY, REALLY MAD AT YOU, THEY MIGHT THINK, WELL, YOU KNOW, I’M SUPER EXCITED FOR THIS PERSON. AND WHILE THIS INCUMBENT’S NOT HALF BAD, I’LL VOTE FOR THEM. SO JONES’S LATE SURGE WAS ABLE TO PUT HIM JUST AHEAD OF COLE GOODMAN WHETHER OR NOT WE SEE ANY LEGAL CHALLENGES, POTENTIAL RECOUNT IS YET TO BE DETERMINED AT THIS POINT. BUT AGAIN, JONES PULLING AHEAD REALLY AT THE LAST MINUTE HERE, POTENTIALLY PUTTING HIM THROUGH THIS PRIMARY PROCESS ONE STEP CLOSER TO REPRESENTING PEOPLE ON THE CITY COUNCIL NEXT YEAR. FOR NOW,
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Pennsylvania Primary election results for Susquehanna Valley city races
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