U.S. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) speaks to reporters on a video call April 20, 2024 (screen capture)
With a Saturday voting session in Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Bob Casey canceled a planned Lackawanna County campaign event on Saturday. Instead, he held a call with local reporters just days before the state’s primary election, to speak on a range of issues and outline the general election race between him and GOP opponent David McCormick.
“I think many of you know the basic fundamentals of his candidacy,” Casey said of McCormick. “He doesn’t live in Pennsylvania, and he’s been lying to the people of our state about that; the Associated Press told us that back in August of 2023.”
Questions about McCormick’s residency have continued to follow the candidate since before the campaign launched; he has said he visits Connecticut frequently to visit his daughter from his first marriage. A New York Times article on Friday questioned whether McCormick had embellished details from his childhood in Bloomsburg; McCormick said the piece “cherry picked” details.