Tag Archives: Bob Casey

The New York Times reports: Senator Bob Casey, a three-term Democrat from Pennsylvania long seen as an institution in state politics, was defeated on Thursday by his Republican challenger, the former hedge-fund executive David McCormick, in a stunning upset in one of the nation’s top Senate races. Mr. Casey conceded on Thursday shortly before The New York Times called the …

CNN reports: The incredibly tight Pennsylvania race between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican challenger Dave McCormick will head to a recount, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt announced Wednesday. While provisional and mail ballots are still being counted, unofficial results show the race to be within the one-half of 1% margin to automatically trigger a recount under state …

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports: The razor-thin margin in Republican David McCormick‘s lead over longtime Democratic U.S. Sen. Bob Casey may trigger an automatic recount, leaving a pivotal U.S. Senate race in doubt a while longer even as the week shapes up to be a historic win for the GOP. By 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Mr. McCormick led by about 31,000 votes …

The Hill reports: Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey (D) is up 4 points in his Senate reelection bid over Republican rival David McCormick, according to a new survey. The AARP poll found the incumbent Democrat garnering 49 percent support from likely voters to McCormick’s 45 percent, while 6 percent of likely voters said they were “undecided” or chose someone else. The …

The Hill reports: Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey (D) is leading his Republican rival Dave McCormick in new Keystone State polling. In a new poll from The Philadelphia Inquirer/The New York Times/Siena College, Casey garnered 49 percent support from the likely electorate in Pennsylvania compared to McCormick’s 40 percent. Another poll from Franklin & Marshall College found Casey leading with 48 …

CNN reports: 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 …

The Associated Press reports: Democratic Sen. Bob Casey will seek a fourth term in office, bringing the power of incumbency and unmatched name recognition in Pennsylvania politics to his party’s defense of a seat in a critical presidential battleground state. The announcement by Casey, the longest-serving Democratic U.S. senator in Pennsylvania history, gives Democrats a boost ahead of a difficult …

The Week reports: Former Vice President Joe Biden already racked up three Senate endorsements within an hour of entering the 2020 race. Biden’s long-awaited announcement that he is running for president in 2020 was quickly followed by an endorsement by Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), whose Senate seat was formerly held by Biden. Coons in a statement says that Biden “doesn’t …

“On April 1, 2013, Pennsylvania’s senior United States Senator, Robert Casey issued a statement supporting marriage equality for same-sex couples and asserting his belief that the Defense of Marriage Act should be repealed.  In so doing, Senator Casey has unfortunately and disappointingly set aside the Catholic belief and teaching that the sacrament of marriage, rooted in the natural law, is …

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), who campaigned as a conservative Democrat, has endorsed marriage equality. “After much deliberation and after reviewing the legal, public policy and civil-rights questions presented, I support marriage equality for same-sex couples and believe that DOMA should be repealed,” Casey said in a statement exclusively first released to Philadelphia Gay News on Monday afternoon. Casey previously backed …