The former hedge fund executive lost a Republican primary battle to television celebrity Mehmet Oz last year.
David McCormick, a former hedge fund executive who lost a Republican primary for Senate last year in Pennsylvania, on Thursday will announce another run at representing the state in the chamber, according to a Republican strategist close to his nascent campaign and another person familiar with the announcement.McCormick intends to announce his bid to topple incumbent Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. , who has served in the Senate since 2007, during a speech in Pittsburgh, the people said.
Pennsylvania had a Republican senator and a Democratic senator for more than a decade until Sen. Patrick J. Toomey retired in January. Sen. John Fetterman, a Democrat, picked up the seat last year after a bruising Republican primary battle elevated television celebrity physician Mehmet Oz as the party’s nominee., who finished second to Oz last year, that they will coalesce around him this time.
Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano, the far-right Republican nominee for governor last year who previously said he was “praying” on whether to make a bid for U.S. Senate, announced in May that he would not run.
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