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Dave McCormick: Pa., choose change on Nov. 5

Dave McCormick
By Dave McCormick
2 Min Read Nov. 3, 2024 | 1 year Ago
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Our country is stuck, and we’ve got to make a change.

If voters want more of the same, they should vote for 18-year incumbent Sen. Bob Casey. But if you’re looking for change after once-in-a-generation price increases, a wave of violent crime in our cities, a wide-open southern border and a fentanyl crisis that is killing more than 4,000 Pennsylvanians each year, I’d be honored to have your vote.

I’m a proud seventh-generation Pennsylvanian who was born in Washington County and grew up in Bloomsburg. After wrestling at West Point, attending Ranger School and serving in combat with the 82nd Airborne Division, I retired from the Army as a captain. I then helped create hundreds of jobs right here in Pittsburgh as an executive and later CEO of a successful software company called FreeMarkets.

I’m a political outsider, not a 30-year career politician like Casey. I’ve put forward a detailed policy agenda that will reduce the cost of living for working families, create jobs, lower energy prices, secure the border and make it easier to start a family.

Bob Casey didn’t change Washington. Washington changed Bob Casey. He votes 98% of the time for the liberal Biden-Harris agenda that has devastated the livelihoods of working Pennsylvania families.

He voted for more than $5 trillion in new spending that sent inflation soaring, against middle-class tax cuts and stood by while Biden and Harris attacked Pennsylvania’s energy industry. And he has repeatedly failed to show the moral courage to stand up to antisemitism in his party.

In this race, voters will choose between the status quo and change that will improve the lives of all Pennsylvanians. If I have the honor to become your senator, I will be an independent voice and a problem-solver who will bring that change.

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