Both candidates made campaign trips to the swing state in recent days, and neither faced major opponents within their respective parties.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump won their party nominations in Pennsylvania's primary election Tuesday after all major rivals dropped out. Both men made campaign trips to swing state Pennsylvania in recent days, and voters can expect to see plenty of them, their TV ads and their surrogates campaigning over the next six months in a state that swung from Trump in 2016 to Biden in 2020.
Casey and McCormick won their respective party primary contests after they were uncontested and now enter what is likely to be a grueling, expensive and hard-fought 2024 general election campaign that culminates in the Nov. 5 vote. This time around, McCormick has consolidated the party around his candidacy and is backed by a super PAC that's already reported raising more than $20 million, much of it from securities-trading billionaires.
McCormick, meanwhile, has accused Casey of rubber-stamping harmful immigration, economic, energy and national security policies of President Biden, and made a bid for Jewish voters by traveling to the Israel-Gaza border and arguing that President Biden hasn’t backed Israel strongly enough in the Israel-Hamas war.The two men share a hometown of Scranton and their political stories are intertwined.
“lt’s a big day in Pennsylvania. And we hope that people get out there and vote. It’s important to vote to let ’em know that we’re coming on November 5th, we’re coming big,” Trump said. “Maybe they’ll think also about a very good person who’s running for the Senate in Pennsylvania: Dave McCormick. And he’s doing a good job. He’s working very hard, successful man, wants to put his success to the country.
For Congress, 44 candidates were on ballots, including all 17 incumbents, just three of whom were facing primary challengers. Democratic Rep. Dwight Evans in Philadelphia and Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick in suburban Philadelphia won their primaries; Democratic Rep. Summer Lee's contest in a Pittsburgh-based district was still being decided.
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