For all the lectures and shaming over “accepting election results,” Democrats are now refusing to accept the results of the Pennsylvania Senate race.
Republican Dave McCormick has won the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania, defeating incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. With over 95% of the votes tallied, McCormick leads Casey by nearly 40,000 votes. As of now, the race is not even within the state’s automatic recount margin. The Associated Press called the race for McCormick last Thursday, noting Casey had no path as McCormick “was winning outright in every region in the state” and even “cut down the margins” in Philadelphia and its suburbs.
The liberal Associated Press called the race four days ago. The liberal group Fair Vote recently published a report acknowledging that only three recounts since 2000 have flipped races, with the margin in all three being less than 0.06%. (McCormick leads by 0.58%, which, again, is not even within Pennsylvania’s 0.5% automatic recount margin). This race is over.
Casey has refused to concede, though. Not only that, but Casey has Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias trying to overturn the result. Elias has a track record of trying to overturn elections that have been decided on behalf of Democrats, including the Democratic attempt to overrule Iowa’s certification of Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks’s victory in the 2020 elections to install Democrat Rita Hart in her seat.
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That move at the time had the backing of House Democrats before they finally backed down amid national pressure. Casey and Elias’s attempt to overturn the will of Pennsylvania voters now has similar support from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has refused to acknowledge McCormick as the winner by withholding his invitation to the freshmen orientation for new senators on Tuesday. Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) has remained silent on this, while Casey’s colleague Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) shamed the Associated Press for calling the race while some ballots were still being counted, even though the outlet did the same for his race in 2022.
If you want to know why there is so much distrust in election results, it is because Democrats have done this for 24 years, going back to the 2000 presidential race. Just as Casey, Elias, and Schumer are doing now, Democrats routinely cling to any excuse they can to deny that they have lost an election, even when it has become clear that the result is no longer in question.