GOP plots Pennsylvania onslaught as Democrats battle to keep 'really difficult' Senate seat
Source: CNN Politics
Published 2:00 AM EDT, Sun September 8, 2024
CNN — Sen. Bob Casey is bracing for a GOP onslaught. After a summer where he and his GOP opponent, David McCormick, have engaged in a brutal exchange of attacks in the marquee US Senate race in Pennsylvania, leaving the race in a dead heat, Republicans are preparing to drop more than $100 million across the airwaves in the final two months of the campaign.
The staggering sum, which accounts to roughly $40 million more than Casey and his allies are preparing so far, gives McCormick the biggest edge on the airwaves of any Senate candidate in the campaign’s home stretch. Up until this point, both sides had spent similar levels on air, with Casey holding the advantage.
“I think I’m the underdog,” Casey, a three-term incumbent with a long history in Pennsylvania politics, told CNN after a Philadelphia rally with union workers. “Those corporate super PACs that are coming in here, that have already begun to attack me all summer long, those expenditures are going to go up exponentially.”
While Casey still predicted he would pull off a November victory and contended that he didn’t “care what they spend,” he said: “I don’t have a personal super PAC funded by Wall Street billionaires. … It’s going to be a really difficult race to win.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/08/politics/pennsylvania-senate-race-bob-casey/index.html
Pennsylvanians don't like carpet-baggers parachuting in to run for office. We threw Frothy out for doing that (taking PA funding to enroll his children in school in Virginia), and sent Oz packing in 2022 in order to elect John Fetterman. Oz had squeaked by McCormick in the GOP primary back then.
As a note, Casey has been running his own ads here in Philly, both TV & radio, all spring and summer. I.e., he got out in front of it very early, similar to how teabagger Toomey had done in his successful campaign during what would be his final election back in 2016 - releasing ads "early and often".
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... he's a work horse. He's done so much for Pennsylvania and he deserves another term.
What has Dave McCormick done except throw money around for media ads and billboards? McCormick doesn't live here, as we all know. Maybe he's a nice guy but so what ... we can't afford to lose a Democratic Senator. We can't afford to lose a solid leader like Bob Casey has been.
Casey is maybe a little quieter than some Senators but he gets the important work done. In 2022 after Roe v Wade was nullified by SCOTUS, Bob Casey (a lifelong Roman Catholic) reversed his position on abortion: he is now pro-choice and he supports legislation to codify national abortion rights.
Casey knows Pennsylvania, he knows what needs to be done in Washington, and he supports our Party's agenda.
He was never an attention-getter or show-boater. He lets Fetterman do that. 
And to emphasize what you wrote - people should also understand Casey's policy change, given his father was on that opposing side of legalizing abortion through the famous "Planned Parenthood v. Casey", one of the cases associated with Roe v Wade.
