Pa. Dem Sen. Casey seems OK with votes for third-party foes to thwart GOP rival

Vulnerable Pennsylvania Democratic Sen.Bob Casey seems fine with voters casting ballots for third-party foes — so long as they don’t vote for GOP rival Dave McCormick, a new ad suggests.The Casey campaign and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee recently rolled out a video ad titled “Four Candidates” that only crosses out his Republican challenger, implying the senator might be OK with the Libertarian and Constitution Party candidates — to help split McCormick’s vote count.McCormick’s face is bathed in red has a big, yellow “X” over it in the final panel of the ad, whereas Libertarian Party candidate John Thomas and Constitution Party candidate Bernard Selker remain untouched — just like Casey.The ad also notes as part of its attack on McCormick that Donald Trump criticized the “Wall Street Republican” during the party’s Pennsylvania Senate primary race in May 2022, when the former president said McCormick was “absolutely the candidate of special interests and globalists.”“Four candidates for Senate.

Who’s standing up to China?” the narrator asks in the Casey video.“It’s Bob Casey, who stood with Donald Trump to put tariffs on China to protect American jobs.“Dave McCormick: He sold us out to China, getting rich by investing in China’s military and investing in China’s biggest fentanyl producer,” the narrator adds.Trump had backed celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz in the 2022 GOP Senate primary — but endorsed McCormick this year in April.Republicans and Democrats have both tried to make use of so-called “spoiler” candidates in recent elections to put them over the top.This year, for example, independent candidate Robert F.

Kennedy Jr.is remaining on the ballot in the swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin to try to pull voters away from Democratic nominee Kamala Harris — while publicly endorsing Trump and urging his supporters to vote for the former president.Libertarian Party 2024 presidential candidate Chase ...