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Republican David McCormick launches 2nd Senate bid in Pennsylvania, aims to oust Democrat Bob Casey
The Pa. candidates will share a ticket with candidates for president next year in a state that is critical to whether Dems can maintain control of the White House and Senate.
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For months, Democrats have treated McCormick as Casey’s de facto opponent, attacking his record in business, his opposition to abortion rights and indications that he still lives on Connecticut’s ritzy “Gold Coast,” where he spent a dozen years as an executive at the hedge fund Bridgewater Associates.
Casey is unlikely to face serious opposition, if any, in his party’s primary. He is a stalwart of Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party — the son of a former two-term governor and Pennsylvania’s longest-ever serving Democrat in the Senate.
Casey is an key ally of labor unions and Biden. In Congress, Casey has backed all of Biden’s top priorities and forged a close relationship with the president, at least in part because the men both hail from the same hometown of Scranton.
Casey spent a decade in elected statewide office — as auditor general then as treasurer — before going on to win three elections for Senate by no fewer than 9 percentage points each time.
https://whyy.org/articles/pennsylvania-us-senate-2024-elections-republican-david-mccormick-entering-race-bob-casey/
David McCormick is gearing up for a Senate run in Pennsylvania. But he lives in Connecticut
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But the reality is more complex. While McCormick does own a home in Pittsburgh, a review of public records, real estate listings and footage from recent interviews indicates he still lives on Connecticut’s “Gold Coast,” one of the densest concentrations of wealth in America. The former hedge fund CEO rents a $16 million mansion in Westport that features a 1,500-bottle wine cellar, an elevator and a “private waterfront resort” overlooking Long Island Sound.
The trappings of a wealthy enclave, well outside Pennsylvania, offer a jarring contrast with the political identity McCormick has sought to cultivate, which emphasizes his upbringing buck hunting, his Army service and his desire to serve his home state.
David McCormick (R) - U.S. Senate
https://www.fox43.com/article/news/politics/elections/politics-elections-david-mccormick-us-senate-republican-primary/521-4025b61b-660b-4670-8365-b4adce6f61c4
David McCormick Says He Lives in Pennsylvania. Flight Records Appear to Tell a Different Story
The former hedge fund CEO, who is expected to announce another Senate bid, seems to spend much of his time in a $16 million Connecticut mansion. That is, when he isn’t taking private planes to his “home” state.
Through the marvel that is modern air travel, a candidate for public office is no longer confined to living in the state they hope to serve in. This relatively new phenomenon appears to be a godsend for David McCormick, a Republican who reportedly now lives in a Connecticut mansion but is poised to run for US Senate in Pennsylvania, where he appears to have chartered a number of private planes to promote his political bid.
Federal Aviation Administration records list McCormick as a co-owner of four Pilatus PC-12s operated by PlaneSense, a fractional aircraft ownership program. According to Flightradar24, on Monday morning, one of those planes flew from Bridgeport, Connecticut, to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where McCormick visited the state capitol. There, he was reportedly spotted talking with Doug Mastriano, the Capitol riot participant who was defeated in the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election last year. After a few hours of glad-handing, the same plane took off from Harrisburg back to Bridgeport. Per Flightradar24 data provided to Vanity Fair, on August 9, another plane operated by PlaneSense flew from Bridgeport to Allegheny County, where McCormick attended a local Republican function the following day. Three days later, another PlaneSense plane flew from Allegheny County to Bridgeport, and McCormick proceeded to tear into Pittsburgh, the city he publicly claims as his place of residence. “It’s just devastating to see how our city has declined under the Democrats’ one party rule,” he wrote in a post later that day on X, the site formerly known as Twitter.
Maddy McDaniel, a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, told me that McCormick is “lying about living in Pennsylvania,” and that he, “won’t be able to fool Pennsylvanians about where he really lives or his record of enriching himself and his Wall Street friends at their expense.”
Be that as it may, the 58-year-old former chief executive of Bridgewater Associates—one of the largest hedge funds in the world—has sought to prove his Pennsylvania roots ahead of the launch of his campaign, which is expected Thursday, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. McCormick’s spokesperson told the Associated Press last month that three of McCormick’s daughters were born there, that he wrote to a Pennsylvania address while serving in Iraq, and that he owns a home in Pittsburgh, as well as a “working farm” in rural Pennsylvania that is something of a family heirloom. So while David McCormick may or may not be an active resident of the commonwealth, spiritually, he seems to believe he’s about as Pennsylvanian as the Liberty Bell.
A McCormick spokesperson did not respond to Vanity Fair’s requests for comment, though he has previously pinned his Connecticut residence on his children’s education. “While he maintains a residence in Connecticut as his daughters finish high school,” his spokesperson told the AP, “Dave’s home is in Pittsburgh.”
That, of course, conflicts with the AP’s reporting that McCormick lives in a $16 million mansion he rents in Westport, Connecticut, an exquisitely affluent town along the Gold Coast. From there, McCormick has seemingly utilized PlaneSense, a kind of timeshare but for private planes. The company’s other customers include onetime Bear Sterns copresident Warren Spector and former Goldman Sachs vice chairman John Weinberg, whose names are listed on the FAA registration records for two separate PC-12s co-owned by McCormick.
McCormick is expected to be the favored Republican in the primary once he announces, having been encouraged to run by Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell. On the Democratic side is Senator Bob Casey, the 63-year-old incumbent who is seeking his fourth term. McCormick ran for Pennsylvania’s other US Senate seat last year, hoping to replace retiring Republican Pat Toomey. But he faltered in the primary to talk show host Mehmet Oz, who was also knocked for not living in Pennsylvania, including by McCormick. “People want to know that the person that they’re voting for gets it,” McCormick, discussing Oz’s general election loss to Democrat John Fetterman, said in March. “And part of ‘getting it’ is understanding that you just didn’t come in yesterday.”
While McCormick may not have “come in yesterday,” it’s still not clear that his Pittsburgh home is anything more than a political pied-à-terre. J.J. Abbott, a Pennsylvania political strategist, says McCormick had numerous chances throughout his professional life to make the state his permanent residence, including in 2009, when he left the Bush administration. Instead, he joined the Connecticut-based Bridgewater Associates as its president. “He only decided to live in Pennsylvania when there was an opportunity to try and buy our Senate seat,” says Abbott, who previously worked for Tom Wolf, the state’s former Democratic governor. “Sure, there’s no doubt that he was born here, but he never considered moving back until there was an opportunity for him to run for higher office.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/09/david-mccormick-says-he-lives-in-pennsylvania-flight-records-appear-to-tell-a-different-story
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