Senate Republicans picked up a key seat Thursday afternoon when Trump-backed businessman Dave McCormick defeated longtime Democratic incumbent Sen. Bob Casey in a closely-watched Pennsylvania race.
The Related Press (AP) known as the race for McCormick, who was main by a bit of greater than 30,000 votes.
Casey launched an announcement on X, previously Twitter, after the AP’s name, pointing to some 100,000 votes he stated have but to be counted.
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Senator Bob Casey (D- PA) addresses supporters earlier than former President Barack Obama speaks throughout a marketing campaign rally for statewide Democratic candidates on September 21, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Mark Makela/Getty Photos)
“Pennsylvania is the place our democratic course of was born. We should enable that course of to play out and be certain that each vote that’s eligible to be counted will likely be counted. That is what Pennsylvania deserves,” he wrote partly.
McCormick informed “The Ingraham Angle” Thursday he believes he was elected as a result of voters “need change.”
“I feel they represented that need for change by electing President Trump. I feel the identical with me. They’re deeply distressed by the skyrocketing costs, the broad open border, the crime in our cities, the warfare on fossil fuels, they usually need change and customary sense management,” he stated.
Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick greets supporters on the Indigo Lodge throughout a main election evening occasion on Might 17, 2022 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photograph by Jeff Swensen/Getty Photos) (Getty Photos)
McCormick’s 2024 marketing campaign was his second try at gaining a seat within the U.S. Senate. He misplaced the Republican Senate main in 2022 to superstar Dr. Mehmet Oz.
The West Level graduate informed Fox Information host Laura Ingraham he’s “honored” to serve the folks of Pennsylvania.
“I am so excited. It is a important time for our nation, and I am honored to signify the nice folks of Pennsylvania — no matter occasion, by the best way, signify, you realize, Democrats, Republicans, Independents,” he stated. “My job is to signify each single considered one of them.”
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Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick speaks throughout a marketing campaign occasion at Desaki restaurant on November 2, 2024, in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photos)
McCormick added that he believes there’s no “mathematical path” for Casey to win primarily based on the excellent votes.
“I misplaced an election by 900 votes, so I do know — I do know you bought to course of it. I do know Sen. Casey’s bought to course of this, and he is been in elected workplace for 30 years. His household’s had an ideal historical past of public service, and so, you realize, he’ll have to seek out his approach to the appropriate reply,” he stated. “However I feel the mathematics is indeniable, and I feel that is why the AP known as it and why we’re assured transferring ahead to start out getting ready to be the following senator from Pennsylvania.”
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The Fox Information Determination Desk projected Tuesday evening that Republicans would flip the Senate, taking management for the primary time in three years.
