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Local news just announced that the dumbest Senator in Congress Bob Casey has just conceded .

U.S. Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. has conceded defeat to his Republican opponent in Pennsylvania’s 2024 Senate race, Wall Street hedge fund manager David McCormick. Casey’s concession comes after Pennsylvania’s 67 counties were already in the midst of a statewide recount, triggered by state law that authorizes a new tabulation of the votes in any statewide election when margin between the two leading candidates is less than 0.5 percentage points. At midnight Wednesday, McCormick’s lead of 16,367 votes equated to .24 percentage points. Early returns from counties that had completed their recounts were showing little to no change from their...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania conceded his reelection bid to Republican David McCormick on Thursday, as a statewide recount showed no signs of closing the gap and his campaign suffered repeated blows in court in its effort to get potentially favorable ballots counted.

Democrats are fighting the Senate election results in Pennsylvania, where GOP Senate candidate Dave McCormick has been declared the winner over Sen. Bob Casey, leading some to turn the “election denier” term on them. Since the 2020 presidential election, President-elect Donald Trump and other Republicans have raised concerns about election irregularities and are often called slurred as “election deniers” by Democrats and the media. However, Democrats in Pennsylvania are now fighting the results of the Senate race that the Republican candidate has won. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) and Casey's campaign have sued 10 county boards of elections, demanding...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday rebuked Democratic-controlled elections boards that counted undated and misdated mail ballots, siding with Republicans and reiterating that such votes are invalid. Philadelphia, Montgomery and Bucks counties voted to count hundreds of such ballots in recent days despite previous rulings from the court that they cannot be included in this election. “It is critical to the rule of law that individual counties and municipalities and their elected and appointed officials, like any other parties, obey orders of this Court,” Justice David Wecht wrote, joined by Justice Sallie Updyke Mundy, in a terse concurring opinion. The...

Democratic officials in Pennsylvania are finally saying out it loud: Election denial is an unconscionable, existential threat to democracy — unless a Republican wins, in which case it’s fine to ignore the law to overturn it. Commissioners in four Pennsylvania counties have been counting ballots disqualified by the state’s top court in a bid to overturn the results in the Senate race between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and GOP challenger Dave McCormick.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court held Monday that incorrectly dated mail ballots cannot be counted.The court held the ballots “shall not be counted for purposes of the election held” on Nov. 5. The Republican National Committee sued Thursday after several counties decided to count ballots with incorrect dates.

The Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race is over, even as this circus gets bogged down in a recount. It’s been over for quite some time, as incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey doesn’t have the votes to win. There are also not enough outstanding votes for him to overcome Republican Dave McCormick’s near-30,000 vote lead. A good chunk of the provisional ballots will be rejected, which is why everyone, including Democrats, knows that Casey lost and should concede. He refuses to do so, allowing liberal attorney Marc Elias to find ways to steal this race. . . . In this instance, we...

Democrat campaigns and their allies have no compunction about breaking election law to grab and keep power.Funny how the times change. Four years ago, Democrats and their pals in corporate media began painting then-President Donald Trump and Republicans who questioned the results of the troubled 2020 election as “election deniers.” Now, Democrats are doing all they can — including breaking election law — to challenge GOP victories in Iowa and Pennsylvania despite “insurmountable” odds. Even The Washington Post, part of the left’s corporate media public-relations team, sees the writing on the wall for Sen. Bob Casey, D-Penn. The entrenched incumbent...

… Currently, Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) is refusing to concede after losing on Election Day, and is indeed trying to steal the election. You don't have to take my word for it; even the liberal media sees it."Before the Nov. 5 election, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled that provisional ballots must be signed in two required places and that mail-in votes must be dated," the Washington Post editorial board wrote. "Yet elected Democratic officials in Philadelphia and three other counties — Bucks, Centre and Montgomery — voted this week to defy these and other court decisions at the request of lawyers...

Before the Nov. 5 election, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court ruled that provisional ballots must be signed in two required places and that mail-in votes must be dated. Yet elected Democratic officials in Philadelphia and three other counties — Bucks, Centre and Montgomery — voted this week to defy these and other court decisions at the request of lawyers for Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, who trails GOP challenger Dave McCormick by about 24,000 votes, with almost all of the roughly 7 million ballots cast having been counted. These Democrats’ decisions will almost certainly be overturned on appeal, but the mere attempt to...

Bucks County Commissioners openly defied the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Thursday by moving to count provisional ballots missing a signature as Democrats and Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) challenge Senator-elect Dave McCormick’s (R-PA) election victory. Bucks County Board of Commissioners Chair Robert J. Harvie Jr. (D) and Vice Chair Diane Ellis-Marseglia (D) decided to count provisional ballots that were missing a signature in one of two places, which officials call “block two” and “block four.” The third commissioner, Gene DiGirolamo (R), was the lone dissenting voice to oppose the Democrats’ challenge to count the ballots.

Dave McCormick’s top campaign strategist declared victory for his client in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race, again. Lawyers for incumbent U.S. Sen. Robert P. Casey’s campaign battled in county courthouses across the state for dozens of votes here, hundreds there. State officials, meanwhile, noted that with an automatic recount triggered, it will be Nov. 27 before anything is finally certified. That was Thursday in the trench warfare that is the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race. But here’s the all-important context: As of 5 p.m. Thursday, Republican McCormick was holding onto a 24,409-vote lead, or a margin of .35 percent. According to data...

Republican David McCormick is projected to defeat Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) in one of the nation’s preeminent battlegrounds, according to Decision Desk HQ, adding to the party’s margins after it took back control of the upper chamber earlier this week. The win by McCormick, a wealthy ex-hedge fund CEO, marked the culmination of a decade-long Republican effort to oust Casey. It also means the state’s representation in the Senate will be split, as it had been for the 12 years before Sen. John Fetterman’s (D-Pa.) victory in 2022. Casey had led throughout much of the campaign, though that lead narrowed...

Wednesday announced the state is conducting a recount of the Senate race between incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and challenger David McCormick because the results were within 0.5%. McCormick, who was declared the winner by the Associated Press, is currently leading Casey by 29,000 votes as of Wednesday. According to the Pennsylvania Department of State, Casey received 3,350,972 (48.5%) votes and McCormick got 3,380,310 (48.93%), CBS News reported. Casey has declined to concede the race so far, but said on Tuesday that election workers are still working to count the seven million ballots that have been cast in the 2024...

(WHTM) – A legally required statewide recount has been ordered in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race with the margin of separation within half a percent. As of today, the unofficial returns for the U.S. Senate race submitted by all 67 counties show the following results for the top two candidates: David H. McCormick – 3,380,310 (48.93%) Robert P. Casey Jr. – 3,350,972 (48.50%) The Department of States says there is an estimated 60,366 uncounted provisional ballots and 20,155 uncounted mail-in and absentee ballots. That 80,521 total includes all ballots for which county boards of elections have not yet made a final...

Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) continued to refuse to concede the race to Senator-elect Dave McCormick (R-PA) in Pennsylvania’s Senate race, despite several outlets having called the election in McCormick’s favor. In a video posted to X, Casey stated that “close to seven million people” in Pennsylvania had cast their votes in the election last Tuesday, adding that county election officials would “finish counting those votes.” Casey’s post came as McCormick attended Senate orientation after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) previously received criticism from Republican senators for not allowing McCormick to attend the orientation.

Chuck Schumer has now extended an invitation to Senate orientation to Republican Dave McCormick, but Democratic Sen. Bob Casey has not conceded.

Today is the day that county canvassing boards meet and decide which provisional votes are eligible for counting. Results are now being posted, including Philadelphia.Overall lead has narrowed to 34,881 or a 0.51% difference, still outside the margin for an automatic recount. Counties which have not yet reported are all over the map. Most are rural, but there are some big urban ones including Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Delaware, Montgomery, Bucks (all Philly suburbs) and Lackawanna (Scranton).

As of Monday afternoon, with 98% of the ballots counted, McCormick has 49.01% of the vote while Casey has 48.43%... That's just a 0.58% lead for McCormick. The vote total difference is 39,650... There are still uncounted provisional ballots. The exact number is not known.... Any statewide race in Pennsylvania decided by 0.5% or less, is automatically recounted. At this point, if McCormick's margin holds, there will NOT be an automatic recount.