Hailey Bullis is an associate news editor at the Washington Examiner, where she has also worked as the homepage editor. Previously, she worked as a stringer for the Free Lance-Star and Fairfax County Times, where she covered local news and events. She graduated from George Mason University and is from Stafford, Virginia.
To win a statewide election, candidates usually must have one of two things — high name recognition or deep pockets. In Pennsylvania’s pivotal 2024 Senate race, the top two candidates each hold one of the advantages.
In the same cycle, now-Sen. John Fetterman beat Oz for Pennsylvania's other Senate seat, which had been held by retired Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, by over 263,000 votes during the general election. But the likely Republican nominee, Trump, has shown enduring electoral strength in Pennsylvania, particularly its rural environs. In 2016, Trump claimed the presidency by being the first Republican nominee since 1988 to win Pennsylvania, along with Michigan and Wisconsin, shattering the longtime Democratic"blue wall."
The endorsement shows the shift in the party’s attitude toward McCormick since the 2022 cycle and comes after the party heavily encouraged him to jump into the race.McCormick, a West Point graduate and Gulf War veteran who was an official in the Treasury Department during former President George W. Bush’s administration, was relatively unknown to Pennsylvania voters when he ran in 2022.
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