Wall Street Journal: “McCormick Faces Several Challenges in Flipping a Senate Seat in Pennsylvania. High on the List: Convincing Pennsylvanians He is One of Them”
Retired PA Railroad Worker: “[McCormick] Just Recently Bought a Place in the Last Couple of Years, But Even When He Was Here, He’d Just be Commuting Back and Forth”
PENNSYLVANIA — Connecticut hedge fund CEO and mega-millionaire David McCormick’s lies about where he lives and the details of his background continue to remain in the spotlight following a new report from the Wall Street Journal.
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- David McCormick faces several challenges in flipping a Senate seat in Pennsylvania. High on the list: convincing Pennsylvanians he is one of them.
- …rivals are still giving him grief for his years spent elsewhere. Backers of incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey Jr.—the son of former Gov. Bob Casey Sr.—have tweaked McCormick for mispronouncing the name of a popular local beer, Yuengling, and for mistakenly referring to a large drink from Wawa, the beloved convenience store chain, as a Big Gulp—a 7-Eleven offering.
- With McCormick, Democrats pounced when he mispronounced the beer as “Yang-ling,” not “Ying-ling.”
- “I didn’t think that anyone could give us more than Oz, but apparently the competition was there,” Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D., Pa.) said at a recent Casey campaign event.
- McCormick bought a house in Pittsburgh in 2021, when he ran unsuccessfully against Oz for the GOP nomination, but kept a residence in Connecticut as well.
- Charlie Hansler, a retired railroad worker, isn’t sold on McCormick’s Pennsylvanian identity. “He just recently bought a place in the last couple years, but even he was here, he’d just be commuting back and forth,” Hansler said.
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