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State Chapters => Pennsylvania => Topic started by: mountaineer on April 10, 2023, 01:24:12 pm
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Beats workin'.
Democrat Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania to Seek 4th Term
Monday, 10 April 2023 06:44 AM EDT
AP via Newsmax (https://www.newsmax.com/politics/bob-casey-senate-pennsylvania-reelection/2023/04/10/id/1115577/)
Democrat Sen. Bob Casey announced Monday he will seek a fourth term in office.
Casey, 62, the longest-serving Democrat U.S. senator in Pennsylvania history, is a key ally of labor unions and President Joe Biden. In Congress, Casey, a moderate Democrat, has backed all of Biden’s top priorities and forged a close relationship with the president, at least in part because the men also have a bond that goes beyond politics: They hail from the same hometown of Scranton.
In running for reelection, Casey’s message sounds similar to how Biden’s campaign for a second term may sound. Casey points to landmark bills produced by a Democratic-controlled Congress that would expand spending on infrastructure such as airports and broadband internet, to reinvigorate a domestic semiconductor industry, to subsidize hydrogen fuel plants and to lower drug costs for Medicare recipients. ...
Republicans do not have a deep bench to challenge Casey, but they do have one potential top-tier candidate: former hedge fund CEO David McCormick, who narrowly lost the GOP nomination for Senate in 2022 to Dr. Mehmet Oz.
McCormick, who has strong support from party brass, has a solid-gold resume as a decorated Gulf War veteran who graduated from West Point, got a doctoral degree from Princeton, served in the highest levels of then-President George W. Bush’s administration and ran one of the world’s largest hedge funds. ...
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He'll win.
Probably easily.