Politico: “The Pennsylvania senator appears to be the first Democrat in the chamber to join President-elect Donald Trump’s social media site.”

“In his ‘first truth,’ Fetterman advocated for Trump to be pardoned from the New York hush money case for which he was found guilty of 34 felony counts, comparing the case to Hunter Biden’s and saying they were ‘both bullshit.'”

Sen. Bob Casey, a three-term Pennsylvania Democrat, on Thursday conceded to his Republican rival, David McCormick, amid a recount in their marquee Senate contest, the New York Times reports.

“David McCormick has won the Pennsylvania Senate race, defeating the Democratic incumbent Sen. Bob Casey,” the AP reports.

“A group with ties to Democrats is trying to peel crucial votes away from Republican Dave McCormick by boosting a third-party candidate in the Pennsylvania Senate race,” Politico reports.

“David, I know you just spoke. Just come here. Stay, like for two seconds, because nobody wants to hear you right now. Just come up.”

— Donald Trump, at a rally in Pennsylvania, to U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick (R).

“In the years that Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick (R) led one of the world’s largest hedge funds, the firm bet millions of dollars against some of the state’s biggest and most iconic companies,” CNN reports.

“Under McCormick’s leadership, Bridgewater Associates shorted the stocks of nearly 50 companies headquartered in Pennsylvania, including The Hershey Company and US Steel.”

“Sen. Bob Casey is bracing for a GOP onslaught,” CNN reports.

“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.”

Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick (R) pressed former employees at his hedge fund “to remain silent about unwanted sexual advances they said they experienced at the company,” USA Today reports.

Pennsylvania U.S. Senate candidate Dave McCormick (R) appeared to mistake a news report involving a shooting in Philadelphia, Mississippi for the City of Brotherly Love; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, WHTM reports.

“David McCormick, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat, touts himself as a job creator, ready to bring his business acumen to serve Pennsylvanians,” WHYY reports.

“However, McCormick’s tenure as the head of a FreeMarkets — a Pittsburgh-based business-to-business software company — has come under scrutiny, and the claim that he created ‘hundreds of jobs’ in Pittsburgh appears unsupported by evidence.”

“The main super PAC supporting David McCormick, the Republican running for Senate in Pennsylvania, is reserving $30 million worth of television ads in the state, a major escalation in the campaign to unseat Senator Bob Casey, the Democratic incumbent,” the New York Times reports.

“The new reservation from the super PAC, known as Keystone Renewal, comes on top of the $82 million that both sides have already spent on, or reserved in, campaign ads in the state, according to AdImpact, which tracks advertising purchases.”

“So far, the group has spent about $3.6 million on mostly positive ads about Mr. McCormick. But the super PAC plans to pivot to more negative spots aimed at Mr. Casey once the new ad buy begins.”

“A super PAC supporting Republican David McCormick’s Senate run in Pennsylvania is launching a $4 million TV ad buy today, its first in one of the most-watched contests of the 2024 campaign,” Axios reports.

“Sen Bob Casey’s campaign announced on Thursday he intends to participate in three debates with GOP opponent David McCormick this fall, one in Philadelphia, one in Pittsburgh, and one in Harrisburg, ahead of the Nov. 5 general election,” the Pennsylvania Capital Star reports.

“The Capital-Star reached out to the McCormick campaign for comment shortly following the announcement from Casey’s campaign. The McCormick campaign responded with a link to a post on social media from McCormick that read, ‘Glad to hear it. See you there.'”

New York Times: “Interviews in Mr. McCormick’s hometown, as well as a review of public records, news coverage from his childhood and his own words, suggest that he has given a misleading impression about key aspects of his background.”

“He has explicitly said and strongly implied that he grew up on a farm, claimed in 2022 that he had ‘started with nothing’ and that he ‘didn’t have anything,’ and he and his campaign have recently described his parents as schoolteachers.”

“In fact, Mr. McCormick is the son of a well-regarded college president who later became chancellor of higher education systems in Pennsylvania and Minnesota. He largely grew up in the president’s sprawling hilltop residence, which students called the president’s mansion, at what is now Bloomsburg University.”