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Republican McCormick flips Pennsylvania Senate seat, ousts Bob Casey

Editorial Board Published November 8, 2024
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Republican David McCormick has received Pennsylvania’s pivotal U.S. Senate seat, as the previous CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund beat three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Tuesday’s election after accusing the incumbent of supporting insurance policies that led to inflation, home turmoil, and conflict.

The battleground state contest pads Republicans’ majority within the Senate, which they wrested from Democratic management this week.

McCormick, 59, recaptured a GOP seat in Pennsylvania that Republicans misplaced in 2022, paying off a guess that social gathering brass made once they urged McCormick to run and consolidated help behind him.

McCormick drew on contacts from throughout the worlds of presidency, politics, and finance to safe backing for his marketing campaign after he was CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund and served on the highest ranges of former President George W. Bush’s administration.

Beating Casey is earth-shaking for Pennsylvania’s Democratic institution. Casey is the namesake of a former two-term governor and Pennsylvania’s longest-serving Democrat ever within the Senate. Till Tuesday, Casey had received six statewide common elections going again to 1996.

McCormick drummed out the constant message that Casey was a do-nothing and weak profession politician who was a key ally of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. McCormick maintained that he would convey management to the job.


Republican Pennsylvania Senate candidate David McCormick, left, arrives to talk together with his spouse, Dina Powell, throughout an election evening watch social gathering, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024, in Pittsburgh.

McCormick additionally benefited from tens of tens of millions of {dollars} in marketing campaign money from billionaires and different allies from throughout the worlds of hedge funds and securities buying and selling.

It was McCormick’s second time operating, this time with a transparent main and former President Donald Trump’s endorsement, after he misplaced narrowly to the Trump-endorsed Dr. Mehmet Oz in 2022’s costly seven-way main.

He has an extended resume that features being adorned for his Military service within the Gulf Warfare, incomes a Ph.D from Princeton College, operating on-line public sale home FreeMarkets Inc.—which had its identify on a skyscraper in Pittsburgh through the tech growth—and sitting on the boards of outstanding establishments, together with Trump’s Protection Advisory Board.

He had baggage, too.

He repeatedly tried to melt his stance towards abortion rights after celebrating the Supreme Courtroom’s 2022 determination to overturn 1972’s landmark Roe v. Wade determination and finish a half-century of federal safety of the appropriate to an abortion. In the long run, McCormick insisted that he would oppose a federal ban on abortion and go away in place Pennsylvania’s legislation that enables an abortion as much as the twenty fourth week of gestation.

McCormick needed to take up accusations—first in 2022’s GOP main after which once more by Casey—that he was a wealthy carpetbagger from Connecticut’s ritzy Gold Coast attempting to purchase a Senate seat. McCormick lived there till he ran for Senate in 2022 and, whereas he purchased a home in Pittsburgh, he additionally maintained an enormous residence in Connecticut till a stepdaughter graduated highschool earlier this 12 months.

McCormick, in flip, harassed his seventh-generation roots in Pennsylvania, talked up his highschool days wrestling in cities throughout northern Pennsylvania—a sport that took him to the U.S. navy academy at West Level—and rising up the son of two educators. His father grew to become the primary chancellor of Pennsylvania’s state-owned college system—beneath Casey’s father.

Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., left, stops to speak to members of the media before voting, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Scranton, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Democratic Sen. Bob Casey stops to talk to members of the media earlier than voting, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Nonetheless, McCormick helped convey the carpetbagger caricature to life by mispronouncing the identify of one in all Pennsylvania’s best-known native beers.

McCormick additionally suffered by way of a legion of assaults on his hedge fund’s investments, together with accusations that he received wealthy at America’s expense by shopping for shares in Chinese language corporations that the federal authorities later got here to contemplate a part of Beijing’s navy and surveillance industrial advanced.

McCormick, in the meantime, tried to capitalize on turmoil within the Center East and on the U.S. southern border with Mexico.

He made a bid for Jewish voters by touring to the Israel-Gaza border, chatting with Jewish audiences throughout the state, and arguing that Casey and the Biden administration haven’t fought antisemitism or backed Israel strongly sufficient within the Israel-Hamas conflict.

On the border, he backed Trump’s pledge to hold out a mass deportation of immigrants within the nation with out permission—prioritizing individuals with legal information—and vowed to press for U.S. navy motion in Mexico to focus on fentanyl trafficking networks, a controversial concept that originated with Trump.

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