In a stunning unhappy, GOP challenger David McCormick has unseated three-term Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania’s Senate contest, according to the Associated Press.
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On Thursday, both strategies expressed confidence in their victories.
” The matter in Pennsylvania is also continuing. Yesterday, the ballot percentage shrunk by 50, 000 seats and this competition is now within half a point, the boundary for automated recounts in Pennsylvania”, Maddy McDaniel, director for Bob Casey for Senate, said in a statement Thursday night. ” With tens of thousands more seats to be counted, we are committed to ensuring every Pennsylvanian’s voting is heard and comfortable that at the end of that operation, Senator Casey may become reelected”.
The McCormick plan disagreed.
” McCormick is up 30, 679 seats with more to travel, as rose red Cambria County is also outstanding”, Elizabeth Gregory, McCormick’s communications director, said in a statement earlier this afternoon. ” While seats continue to be counted, any way you slice it, Dave McCormick will be the next United States Senator from Pennsylvania”.
McCormick’s success is a huge win for the Republican Party. McCormick has always been the opponent in this contest, and he has never been a leader in the RealClearPolitics normal. Casey has been displaying evidence of his eventual fight, though for days.
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Next month, the Casey strategy ran an ad that positioned Casey as a moderate. When the ad initially came out, I wrote:
The campaign emphasizes that Casey “bucked Trump” on drilling, a vital issue in Pennsylvania, and” sided with Trump” on business laws, especially in ending NAFTA and imposing tariffs on China. Kamala Harris? She does n’t even come up, even when Marygrace mentioned” corporate greedflation and price gouging”.
If the ads in this one were to tell us anything, it was that Casey is trying to distance himself from Biden and Harris while appealing to Pennsylvania’s jump citizens by aligning himself with Trump. Casey is aware of Trump’s growing effect in Pennsylvania and believes he needs to appeal to his supporters to win his election.
It looks like it was n’t enough to convince Pennsylvania voters.  ,
I even wrote,” Casey’s history is also not one of an independent voice in Congress, he voted with Biden 99 % of the time”.
This campaign is BONKERS. Nearly 99 % of the time, Bob Casey seats with Biden. photograph. twitter.com/ABLjVnvQcb— Steve Guest ( @SteveGuest ) October 18, 2024
Flipping this Pennsylvania chair was especially exciting for Republicans, given the group’s missed prospects in other important state like Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin. McCormick’s earn today provides Republicans with a substantial boost, securing a 53-seat majority in the Senate and strengthening the group’s side as it moves into the 2025 legislative program. Attention turns now to Arizona, the only unsolved Senate race where Republican Kari Lake trails Democrat Ruben Gallego by two points with 74 % of votes reported.  ,
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McCormick had recently campaigned for the Senate in 2022, but he only managed to win the Republican nomination with a close win over Dr. Mehmet Oz. Kansas, in turn, faced defeat against Democrat John Fetterman in the public vote. In the current election cycle, McCormick’s win represents a significant victory for the GOP.
