Dave McCormick may be the underdog, but he is closing the gap quickly. That is irrelevant because the Democrats’ late manufactured votes will defeat him even if he wins by a small margin. Bob Casey, the Democrat in the race, had been leading by as much as nine points, but in two weeks, he narrowed the gap to 3 1/2 points. During Biden’s first two years, Casey voted with him 99.5% of the time. Now that he is in trouble, he has voted with Biden a little over 78%.
He isn’t the only one running for the Senate on the Democratic side to vote for policies held by President Donald Trump. Tammy Baldwin, Elissa Slotkin, John Tester, and even Kamala Harris are plugging the Trump agenda desperately, trying to save their campaigns. The two most important issues in Pennsylvania are open borders and fracking. Bob Casey has continually voted against border control, and he voted for a bill to reduce fracking nationwide.
McCormick said:
“I feel a lot of great momentum. I’m the underdog in this race. I’m being outspent, despite the lies of Bob Casey. If you look at the spending, he and his allies are outspending me by a lot. But I have enough to get my message out on the air, and I have huge momentum on the ground. There’s lots of people knocking on doors. Millions of doors have already been knocked and will be knocked between now and November 5, signs everywhere. Listen, I feel it on the ground. I feel a lot of enthusiasm, and the polling supports it. If you look at the last two months, my polling has closed to where it’s a tie race. And so the momentum is on my side. The more people get to know me, and the more they focus on Bob Casey, the better it is for me. And that’s what’s happening.”
“There are so many first-, second- and third-order consequences of the border crisis that the most important thing is first to stop the flow. We have to secure the border. That’s first and foremost, job number one. And then, when you look at the 10 million people or more that have come in, there’s a triage that you’re going to have to do. It’s going to be very challenging if your goal is to basically send everybody home that’s here illegally, which I think we should.”
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELThe massive increase in illegal immigration that marked President Joe Biden’s term has impacted Pennsylvania as it has nearly every other state in the country, and the issue is on voters’ minds in the Keystone State: 38% of Pennsylvanian respondents in a September poll by Monmouth University identified immigration as one of the two top issues in the 2024 election cycle. The DCNF recently reported that mass immigration is straining the state’s school system because school districts are shelling out needed resources to accommodate large numbers of students who do not speak English as their first language.
The burden the immigration surge places on social services further highlights the need for the government to reestablish order at the border, said McCormick, who added that his wife is an immigrant and that he supports legal immigration.
Apart from immigration, abortion access and economic conditions are also major concerns for Pennsylvania voters, which may not be surprising that the same issues are on the electorate’s mind nationwide, according to the Monmouth poll. However, energy policy and fracking are topics that may end up playing a particularly strong role in Pennsylvania’s Senate and presidential races given the natural gas industry’s economic importance in the state.
Harris said there’s “no question” fracking should be banned while running for president in the 2020 cycle, though her campaign has disavowed that position after she replaced Biden as the Democratic nominee. While Harris has attempted to suggest that she is much less hostile to natural gas and other fossil fuels in recent months, one of her top climate advisers undercut that messaging by saying that Harris is “not promoting expansion” of fossil fuels in an interview with Politico Pro.
Anecdotally, working- and middle-class Pennsylvanians seem to be motivated by the contrast on energy issues in this election cycle, particularly in the northern and western regions of the state that are home to massive gas deposits, McCormick told the DCNF.
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