2024 PA Senate race: on Principles & Values


David McCormick: Candidates with Muslim background are a political liability

David McCormick and his wife met with former President Donald Trump and suggested Dr. Mehmet Oz's Muslim background would be a political liability in the Pennsylvania US Senate race, The New York Times reported. The couple made the case that Oz's Muslim background was an electability issue and that it was a political liability, according to the Times.
Source: Business Insider on 2024 Pennsylvania Senate race Mar 20, 2022

David McCormick: For the most part I don't hear extreme rhetoric

We have two very conflicting visions of where to take the country, the Democratic Party versus the Republican Party. There's a real conflict of ideas. But, for the most part, I don't hear extreme rhetoric, and, obviously, extreme rhetoric has no place in politics. I believe that we're going in the wrong direction. I'm making the case as aggressively as I can that we need to go in a different direction. That's different than attacking people. That's different than threatening violence.
Source: ABC This Week on 2024 Pennsylvania Senate race Jul 14, 2024

David McCormick: We need real debate but must dial back violent rhetoric

Bob CASEY: What we should be categorically condemning is violence of all kinds, political violence or otherwise. Too often, what happens in our debates about policies, we categorically condemn the other side. But we can also take steps to condemn and to try to prevent political violence against the spouse of the speaker or children in classrooms who have been gunned down over and over again by the same weapon.

Dave McCORMICK: We need to have a real debate and fight and argument, conflict about the right direction of the country. But it need not be dehumanizing. It need not lead to violence. And, in fact, it can't. And so I hope we can see a dialing back of that rhetoric. And I certainly am going to try to do my part in being a strong voice for where I think the country should go, but also one that speaks out against violent rhetoric that contributes to the horror we saw yesterday.

Source: CNN SOTU interview on 2024 Pennsylvania Senate race Jul 14, 2024

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Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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