Republican businessman Dave McCormick won the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania, the Associated Press said Thursday.
McCormick declared victory early Thursday, though Casey had yet to concede and the race had not been called. With 99% of the vote counted, McCormick led Casey by around 30,000 votes. The AP call came after Republican Senators Bill Hagerty (R-TN), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and John Thune (R-SD) called on Casey to concede.
“Any way you slice it, Dave McCormick will be the next United States Senator from Pennsylvania,” McCormick communications director Elizabeth Gregory said.
Pennsylvania was the first state in history to be inundated with more than a billion dollars in political ads during a campaign cycle. McCormick had recently surged in the polls, saying that Pennsylvanians “can see now it’s between a seventh-generation Pennsylvanian, an outsider, a business guy, someone who went to West Point and served in combat, versus a guy who’s been in elected office for 30 years and has been weak in a 99% vote for these liberal policies.”
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In recent weeks, Casey had attempted to tie himself to former President Donald Trump, dropping a campaign ad that says “Casey bucked Biden to protect fracking and he sided with Trump to end NAFTA and put tariffs on China to stop them from cheating.”
Zach Jewell contributed to this report.
