{"id":58769,"date":"2024-11-06T10:28:55","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T15:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=58769"},"modified":"2024-11-06T10:28:55","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T15:28:55","slug":"casey-campaign-confident-despite-trailing-mccormick-in-tight-pennsylvania-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/casey-campaign-confident-despite-trailing-mccormick-in-tight-pennsylvania-senate-race\/58769\/","title":{"rendered":"Casey campaign confident despite trailing McCormick in tight Pennsylvania Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the race for Pennsylvania\u2019s U.S. Senate seat remains too close to call, the campaign of Democratic incumbent Senator Bob Casey, who is currently trailing Republican challenger David McCormick, has expressed confidence in a potential path to victory. In a statement released by the campaign, a spokeswoman emphasized that key votes in areas like Philadelphia are still being counted, which could shift the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are more votes that need to be counted in areas like Philadelphia and it\u2019s important that every legal ballot will be counted,\u201d the spokeswoman stated. \u201cWhen that happens, we are confident the senator will be re-elected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While McCormick is currently leading by a narrow margin, less than 1%, in the ongoing vote tally, Casey\u2019s team remains optimistic about the results as additional ballots are processed. The race is a pivotal contest in determining the balance of power in the Senate, with both parties closely watching the outcome in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, the race remains uncalled, and with significant votes still outstanding, both campaigns are awaiting final results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere are more votes that need to be counted in areas like Philadelphia and it\u2019s important that every legal ballot will be counted,\u201d the spokeswoman stated. \u201cWhen that happens, we are confident the senator will be re-elected.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":366,"featured_media":58772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[15102,22666,22667,299,10282,22665,22669,298,22714,22713],"class_list":["post-58769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-2024-election","tag-bob-casey","tag-david-mccormick","tag-democrats","tag-election-results","tag-pennsylvania-senate-race","tag-philadelphia-votes","tag-republicans","tag-senate-re-election","tag-tight-race"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}