{"id":128878,"date":"2024-11-22T18:20:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-22T11:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128878"},"modified":"2024-11-22T18:20:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-22T11:20:54","slug":"incumbent-bob-casey-concedes-pennsylvania-senate-race-to-dave-mccormick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=128878","title":{"rendered":"Incumbent Bob Casey concedes Pennsylvania Senate race to Dave McCormick"},"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 class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"MIFNGTN4BRAAFB7VJWLF7M4M34\"><b>NOTE:<\/b> <i>This post was updated at 6:45 p.m. with quotes from Sen. Casey\u2019s concession and Sen-elect McCormick\u2019s response. At 6:58 p.m. we loaded in Casey\u2019s videotaped statement.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"PDHL3VRSFZCYRELPRIDWSC4AWA\">U.S. Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. has conceded defeat to his Republican opponent in Pennsylvania\u2019s 2024 Senate race, Wall Street hedge fund manager David McCormick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BZGUXIGZCRHXFIOAHYK554IVBM\">Casey\u2019s concession comes after Pennsylvania\u2019s 67 counties were already in the midst of a statewide recount, triggered by state law that authorizes a new tabulation of the votes in any statewide election when margin between the two leading candidates is less than 0.5 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"HVPVQCXNGRFZ3EACHNOMJOKV3Y\">At midnight Wednesday, McCormick\u2019s lead of 16,367 votes equated to .24 percentage points. Early returns from counties that had completed their recounts were showing little to no change from their initially-reported results.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"QEGG3RT3FBD4PHI2Q7LXUZYVDU\">\u201cI want to thank the people of Pennsylvania for granting me the privilege of serving them for 28 consecutive years in public office,\u201d Casey said in a video statement posted online this evening after, he said, he had spoken with McCormick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"46XVYUHAVBCCJNJWD2UZYDSWCU\">\u201cThank you for the trust you\u2019ve placed in me for all these years. It\u2019s been the honor of my lifetime,\u201d Casey concluded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AECPF4ILL5H43I5FIAP4HZ542U\">McCormick, in turn, set down the bare-knuckled language of the campaign and issued his own statement thanking Casey for his years of service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TC44BAFJXFCF7BPJSAQ34OMRCQ\">\u201cSenator Bob Casey dedicated his career to bettering our Commonwealth. Dina and I want to extend our sincere gratitude to Senator Casey, Terese, and their family for their decades of service, hard work, and personal sacrifice,\u201d the Senator-elect\u2019s statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"AN5D4PZDWJHYREIE647YCS3HKY\">\u201cI am so honored to represent every single citizen in Pennsylvania in the United States Senate and will fight for you every day. Thank you!\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"rawhtml\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">During my time in office, I have been guided by an inscription on the Finance Building in Harrisburg: \u201cAll public service is a trust, given in faith and accepted in honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your trust in me for all these years, Pennsylvania. It has been the honor of my lifetime. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RSXEFwdge8\">pic.twitter.com\/RSXEFwdge8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bob Casey Jr. (@Bob_Casey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bob_Casey\/status\/1859733833232662650?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"B5FKVCQ5LREDJGZN3F4AK4YANE\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/politics\/2024\/11\/mccormick-declared-winner-over-casey-in-pennsylvanias-us-senate-race.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McCormick was declared the winner by The Associated Press\u2019s analysts<\/a> on Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JL6OVRQE4BARPLGRTNWX5QTBFE\">But Casey and his campaign, down by about 40,000 votes at that point, dug in for the methodical vote certification process, hanging onto slim hopes that pro-Democratic tilts in the mail-in and provisional counts could bring about a political miracle for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"M26WRAFGS5DZ5EJFQ7Z4EC2I6E\">Many Republicans publicly lost their patience over the last two weeks, accusing the Casey campaign and Democratic Party of trying to unlawfully expand the field of available votes, and throwing Casey\u2019s criticisms of former President Donald J. Trump\u2019s refusal to concede in 2020 back in his face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EOWXD2RQVRCIFCKGJJO23I5S7Y\">That fails to note two important distinctions, however: Casey has never questioned the integrity of the count, and he has never suggested that he would not accept the final results. And now, it appears, he\u2019s done just that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"IVJNKR42DJACLL4RR6NKIAQWCE\">Casey himself publicly leaned into the idea that he wanted to make sure every legal vote was counted. He didn\u2019t back off of that sentiment in his concession, expressing pride Thursday that his staff helped, by their count, more than 6,000 votes cure mail-in ballots over the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZSZUH5REKNDPDGTFNM4XW7WJQY\">\u201cThat\u2019s democracy,\u201d Casey argued, stating that he was conceding now because initial counts in all counties had been completed and reported to the Pennsylvania Department of State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CZXYUQZJC5DUFPNEMXIUWLXP2A\">But the Casey campaign seemed to lose its last flicker of hope when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court stuck by its prior rulings Monday that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/politics\/2024\/11\/pa-supreme-court-no-counting-of-undated-mail-in-ballots-in-just-completed-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">there would be no counting of undated or incorrectly dated mail-in ballots in this election.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4ZO54DS4HBFKNLXKFY5MEBMUAE\">The 2024 senate race made state political history on several levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JST5JSYM25B2VODHCGHXRCS4SA\">First, it\u2019s on track to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/politics\/2024\/11\/dave-mccormicks-campaign-declares-victory-again-but-when-is-a-win-a-win.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the closest by percentage margin of difference between the top two candidates in a Pennsylvania senate race<\/a> since U.S. senators began being directly elected by the voters in the early 20th Century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OP2XBJRYLZD77FDDEUTHT2LAH4\">The previous record was 1958, when Democrat Joe Clark unseated Republican incumbent James Duff in 1958 by 0.39 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BUEBE627GBHQBGFVAI37DHOB5E\">For Casey, 64, it\u2019s the end of an 18-year tenure in the Senate, and 28 straight years in some sort of statewide elected office.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-articles-container\" id=\"recommended-articles\">\n<p class=\"related-articles-affiliate\">RECOMMENDED<span class=\"affiliate-spacer dot__pennlive\">\u2022<\/span><span class=\"affiliate-site\">pennlive<!-- -->.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"77ABGAUZR5DAJKO7WYAWWTO4WA\">For the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, it\u2019s the end of an era in which the Casey family held statewide office for 36 of the last 38 years, beginning with the election of the senator\u2019s father, Robert P. Casey Sr., as governor in 1986.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"WY3AQVTNVJBMTHIWZM2K6KPSOU\">McCormick\u2019s victory would give President-elect Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party a slightly more comfortable 53-47 majority in the Senate in the 2025-26 session of Congress, to go along with a narrow GOP majority in the U.S House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DEU4XWPQWRBHNED4WOKHSUCADQ\">McCormick will be sworn into office on Jan. 3, at the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/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:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/politics\/2024\/11\/us-sen-robert-casey-concedes-pennsylvania-senate-race-seat-to-dave-mccormick.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: This post was updated at 6:45 p.m. with quotes from Sen. 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