{"id":128779,"date":"2024-11-22T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128779"},"modified":"2024-11-22T12:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T05:00:13","slug":"democrat-bob-casey-concedes-to-republican-david-mccormick-in-pennsylvania-senate-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128779","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Bob Casey concedes to Republican David McCormick in Pennsylvania Senate contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) \u2014 Democratic <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/robert-casey\">Sen. Bob Casey<\/a><\/span> of Pennsylvania conceded his reelection bid to Republican <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/david-mccormick\">David McCormick<\/a><\/span> on Thursday, as a statewide recount showed no signs of closing the gap and his campaign suffered blows in court in its effort to get favorable ballots counted.<\/p>\n<p>Casey\u2019s concession comes more than two weeks after Election Day, as a grindingly slow ballot-counting process became a <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pennsylvania-senate-recount-mail-ballots-envelopes-court-94a7b1e9ba9841f2a51b9d610624f018\">spectacle<\/a><\/span> of hours-long election board meetings, social media outrage, lawsuits and accusations that some county officials were openly flouting the law.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans had been claiming that Democrats were trying to steal McCormick\u2019s seat by counting \u201cillegal votes.\u201d Casey\u2019s campaign had accused of Republicans of trying to block enough legitimate votes to prevent him from pulling ahead and winning.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Casey, a stalwart of Pennsylvania\u2019s Democratic establishment and the state\u2019s longest serving Democrat ever in the Senate, said he had just called McCormick to congratulate him. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the first count of ballots is completed, Pennsylvanians can move forward with the knowledge that their voices were heard, whether their vote was the first to be counted or the last,\u201d Casey said.<\/p>\n<p>Casey\u2019s campaign said the last of the ballots cast before polls closed on Nov. 5\u2019s Election Day had finally been counted Thursday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Infobox\" data-module=\"\" data-gtm-region=\"What to know about Trump's second term: Staffing the administration: Here are the people Trump has picked for key positions so far. Plus, a look at recess appointments and how could Trump use them to fill his Cabinet.Follow all of our coverage as Donald Trump assembles his second administration.\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Infobox-items RichTextBody\">\n<p><b>What to know about Trump\u2019s second term:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Follow all of our coverage as <\/i><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\"><i>Donald Trump<\/i><\/a><\/span><i> assembles his second administration.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Associated Press <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/why-ap-called-pennsylvania-senate-f9af5d80be39fcc7a2abb8258a8f3ccf\">called<\/a><\/span> the race <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/pennsylvania-senate-2024-election-david-mccormick-casey-866a8712dea0b52b5d8d6b4844968b53\">for McCormick<\/a><\/span> on Nov. 7, concluding that not enough ballots remained to be counted in areas Casey was winning for him to take the lead.<\/p>\n<p>As of Thursday, McCormick led by about 16,000 votes out of almost 7 million ballots counted.<\/p>\n<p>That was well within the 0.5% margin threshold to trigger an <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/casey-mccormick-pennsylvania-senate-recount-e7cfa99fbfa6b331893e8cc3fa025bb9\">automatic statewide recount<\/a><\/span> under Pennsylvania law. <\/p>\n<p>But no election official expected a recount to change more than a couple hundred votes or so, and Pennsylvania\u2019s highest court dealt Casey a blow when it <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/casey-mccormick-pennsylvania-senate-court-recount-b6c9ee8faac20d6272a54900e2d570e7\">refused<\/a><\/span> entreaties to allow counties to count mail-in ballots that lacked a correct handwritten date on the return envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Casey in the meantime had won efforts to get counties to tabulate thousands of provisional ballots that might otherwise have been thrown out because of an error by an election worker. That included voters whose registrations hadn\u2019t been properly processed, the campaign said.<\/p>\n<p>But the campaign lost other efforts to get counties to count ballots that were disqualified over garden-variety errors that voters made, like not signing a provisional ballot in two places or not putting the ballot into an inner \u201csecrecy\u201d envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans will have a 53-47 majority next year in the U.S. Senate. <\/p>\n<p>McCormick, 59, recaptured a GOP seat in Pennsylvania after Republicans lost one in 2022, paying off a bet that <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/senate-majority-pennsylvania-2024-mccormick-casey-f58e85424a48698f8c10571f24c3f54b\">party brass<\/a><\/span> made when they urged McCormick to run and consolidated support behind him. It was McCormick\u2019s <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/david-mccormick-senate-control-campaign-pennsylvania-2024-453c1fe64aeb734ec0426a1c1dbb93b0\">second time<\/a><\/span> running, after he <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-entertainment-mehmet-oz-6b2849083ff96ac18dc25e939a3f9195\">lost narrowly<\/a><\/span> to Dr. Mehmet Oz in 2022\u2019s GOP primary.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick, the former CEO of the world\u2019s largest <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/casey-mccormick-pennsylvania-senate-china-hedge-funds-7f5258252f79ea9245b84036cad3d6d4\">hedge fund<\/a><\/span>, drew on tens of millions of dollars in campaign cash from allies from across the worlds of hedge funds and securities trading to help make the race the nation\u2019s second-most expensive in the campaign cycle.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Follow Marc Levy at <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/timelywriter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">twitter.com\/timelywriter<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/casey-mccormick-pennsylvania-senate-71f58415fb1e1fd7f00ef617808a7c4c\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. 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