May 18, 2022: Takeaways from the biggest primary night of the year
Sixteen months after Donald Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill to try to stop the certification of Joe Biden as president, a prominent election denier in Pennsylvania inched closer to becoming the next governor of Pennsylvania. State Sen. Doug Mastriano \u2014 who attended and helped organize for the \u201cStop the Steal\u201d rally, has called for audits of Keystone State votes and has been subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 panel \u2014 clinched the GOP gubernatorial nomination. If he wins this fall, he\u2019ll be in a position to nominate the next Pennsylvania secretary of state, a position that oversees elections in the key presidential battleground state.\nAnd, one week after catapulting J.D. Vance to victory in Ohio, Trump had a somewhat decent night, though the verdict on perhaps his biggest gamble \u2014 supporting Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania\u2019s tight Senate primary \u2014 is still out.\nSubscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter\nRaghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.