Schumer Blocking PA GOP Senate Winner McCormick From Orientation
The race has been called. Sounds like Chucky is denying an election. Insurrection!
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said current Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer isn’t allowing Republican Pennsylvania Senator-elect Bob McCormick to participate in orientation because Democrat incumbent Bob Casey hasn’t conceded the race.
It sounds like Schumer is denying an election.
It sounds insurrectiony, Chucky!
Schumer is not allowing @DaveMcCormickPA to participate in Senate orientation this week because Casey refuses to concede the race. What happened to all the demands that our leaders accept the outcome of the elections?
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) November 10, 2024
This is BULLSHIT. Schumer is a lame duck. @DaveMcCormickPA should show up anyway. We’ve got a country to save! https://t.co/cDQTeAdXVS
— Tim Sheehy (@SheehyforMT) November 10, 2024
Didn’t everyone call the Senate race?
The Associated Press even explained why it called the race on Thursday:
McCormick was leading by more than 30,000 votes when AP called the race at 4:09 p.m., and though there were an estimated 91,000 votes still outstanding at that time, there were not enough in areas supporting Casey for him to make up the difference.
McCormick didn’t win in the Democratic-leaning city of Philadelphia. But like Republicans across the map and President-elect Donald Trump, he sliced significantly the support that Democrats got. For instance: Casey was winning the city with about 78% of the vote, but that was down 8 percentage points from six years ago.
McCormick was winning outright in every region of the state — from the Poconos and one-time coal towns to the central areas around Penn State University to Western Pennsylvania. He lost Philadelphia and its suburbs, but cut down the margins. In Bucks County, just north of Philadelphia, Casey was winning by less than 1 point; he carried the populous area by 6 points in 2018.
But Casey will not concede.
In case you’re wondering why @bob_casey isn’t conceding.
There’s still money left to be made off lying to Democrat donors that the race isn’t over.
Disgusting. pic.twitter.com/aEvrFMDDpt
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) November 7, 2024
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Schumer should not be allowed on any committees in the new Senate. NONE.
That would require a Republican with a set to pull that off
The secretary of retribution might have something to Say about this
It would be welcome if they found an opportunity to lock schumer up and remove him from the senate
You mean there isn’t a Senate committee on Public Sanitation?
While I agree with you that Schumer should be exiled to the broom closet I don’t think some press outlets “calling” a race before all the ballots are counted should be grounds to install someone into office.
Schumer is not seating Gallego from Arizona either. He isn’t inviting anyone regardless of party if the election in their state still has votes to count. I actually agree with him. People screech about corporate press calling elections if their candidate is behind but suddenly love it if their guy is ahead.
Lock HIM up w/o due process and on President Trumped-up charges.
FA/FO
Dems have most certainly gone out of their ways to show us new tactics, time to teach their tactocs.
Since 2020 quetion8ng an election is a capital offense thank to his party. Exercise their rules.
Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,
But there is no joy in [Schumer]—mighty Casey has struck out.
my guess is if Rick Scott is elected Majority Leader
Chuckie retires
Considering that McConnell is trying to schedule the vote before the newly elected more populist and less establishment oriented Senators arrive….Scott is likely gonna lose to McConnell’s carefully created cabal of establishment ass clowns.
Chuck will not retire as long as he can bilk one dime from the US taxpayers. In the unlikely event he is beaten in an election, they will have to drag him out of his office by the feet, and he’ll leave scratches in the doorframes all the way to the street.
Not surprising. Schumer is one nasty piece of work. He shares this with other New York pols especially the Democrats. Growing up there I collected and experienced a lot. Jacob Javis provides an interesting case. He was a solid liberal but a Republican. How is that? Javis said that as a boy he was involved with his father in New York politics and what he saw as a young man so disgusted him he swore to never be a Democrat. Not Jacob was any kind of nice guy. Throughly obnoxious but probably honest. I used to say that his full name was Jacob (that shit) Javis, only the “that shit” part was silent.
While it cannot be said with certainty that we would not still be stuck with him, the apparent lack of any sort of real and sustained electoral challenge to Schumer is a result of the GOP/Mitch McConnell doing nothing to help anyone who has run against him.
New York is admittedly a very blue state, but Schumer should not be able to run for office with opposition that cannot afford to run ads.
This is just Schumer’s petty and vindictive way of letting everyone know that he’s still the boss. Either that, or it’s yet another sign of his growing senility. It’s so hard to tell them apart.
He didn’t invite Gallego in AZ either. Schumer cut it both ways.
Ok, so now he is wrong twice and still looks like an emotionally incontinent toddler.
The race in PA is over.
The race in AZ is not.
Chuck ole buddy, you are being an itsy bit bitchy..
Another New York story. From the father of a high school chum who was a New York lawyer in private practice. How do you get a judgeship in NYC? A contribution to the Democrats. Well known in legal circles. Provable. Someone made his contribution and got his judgeship, but died before he could go on the bench. His widow wanted the money back, sued and won! How could she not? After all the judge on the case knows how he got on the bench. It must have been amusing in the court that day. My own reconstruction of what went on chambers. Judge: “Give her back the money you schmuck, we can’t let this get out!” Tammany Hall lawyer: “ok ok sorry will write her a check now”
Everything about New York politics and the people in it is corrupt and ugly. Trump tore the mask with his civil and criminal cases. Dershowitz who attended the criminal trial ripped the case apart in his podcast commentary. Mind you Dershowitz is a liberal Democrat always making excuses for the party. He voted for Hillary and Biden. But he refuses to tell us how he voted in the last Trump election.
One day G_d will destroy NYC as he destroyed Sodom for its infinite wickedness. Could we find ten righteous men in NYC? I doubt it, even though NYC has 10,000 times the population of Sodom. The destruction will take the form of nuclear missile attack.
Taken from the official Senate website: “Post-election orientation programs offer newly elected senators an opportunity to familiarize themselves with Senate procedures and traditions.”
Schumer’s behavior is petty and vindictive and short-sighted. I would say the same if it was a R that did it to a D. If McCormick does win, he’s going to be your senatorial colleague for the next 6 years. Tell him to come to the orientation, but you understand all the votes aren’t counted yet, and he may end up not certified as the winner. McCormick is grateful and (Schumer’s fingers crossed) maybe you can get his vote on something down the road. This way, all that Schumer has guaranteed himself is a giant salute with two extended middle fingers anytime McCormick has the opportunity.
As a Pennsylvanian, I cannot WAIT to say goodbye to Casey, who spent the past 9 months telling me what a great job he was doing going after “evil price gouging companies” because it was THEIR fault prices were rising. Not inflation, not increased fuel costs, or any one of a hundred other possible reasons. But all corporations evidently met in a secret bunker some night and agreed to all shrink package sizes and raise prices because who needs evidence when you can make accusations?
Mark Elias is keeping this going so he can make money. Remember his specialty is getting races to swing to whoever pays him.
I just looked at the results and McCormick is still 30k ahead with 99% reporting, its over.
Elias is just blowing smoke up their skirts for as long as he can charge hours.
Marc Elias has appeared on the scene. He is the atty that got Al Franken in the US Senate over the real winner, Norm Coleman.
Elias is very, very smart. He’s pulled rats out of hats when none were there. The McCormick team MUST have the best attys possible.
There needs to be a major effort against this steal. You know they are doing their darnedest.
Schumer is colluding with Casey & Penn dems to steal this senate seat from McCormick by stalling for time to ‘find’ more ballots for Casey at 3 am early next week. Bank on it.
Arizona just did it to Lake (who got more votes than Kamala!). McCormick is the next victim in Penn.
Why? Because no one goes to prison for this election fraud, so they’ll just keep doing it.
Schumer knows it. Penn dems know it. The only ones who haven’t learned this lesson are limp bisket GOP.
Schmuck Schumer. The brazen chutzpah of this putz.
Even with their cheating they couldn’t win
Counting the votes should take no more than 3 hours.
“Schumer is a lame duck!”
We should live so long! Maybe a senate leader he is, but he’s going to be a troublemaker regardless.
Someone needs to remind Chucky that Casey “Concession” is a formality and nothing more. Whether he concedes or not if the election is called then he still looses.
The election hasn’t been “called”. AP is not an arm of the government; it has no authority to declare election results. It can predict and estimate, but that has no official significance.
And even in the news industry AP is the only member that has “called” it. The rest of the industry is still waiting.
I’ve read a couple of news outlets calling the race but I certainly agree with you. Although the votes still to be counted are in heavy Republican counties and it looks like McCormick will be the winner, he has not won yet. Schumer is not seating Gallego from AZ either as they are still counting.
People hate news outlets calling races when their guy loses but seem to love it when their guy looks like the winner. I’m old enough to remember the furor on the Right when Fox called Arizona for Biden in 2020,
This is absolutely true but there is a better than 50/50 chance McCormick and the other one from AZ will win so does it hurt to bring them to the orientation? If they don’t win what harm was done? If they do win you don’t have to do another orientation just for them.
Does orientation include privileges (classified briefings, for example) they otherwise would not have? Or spending money that otherwise would not be spent?* Those would be the only reasons not to invite both potential winners from each race.
(* I know, when would a Senator care about money being spent?)
I didn’t say the election was called, I said “if”, which still doesn’t change the main point that concession is a formality and not required.
Of course it isn’t required. Nobody suggested that it was. We don’t know what Schumer actually said; we’re relying on Rubio’s second-hand paraphrase.
But if he said that he wasn’t inviting McCormick because Casey hadn’t yet conceded, that would make sense, and yet would not mean what you suggested. It would make sense because even if the race hasn’t been called, if the only other possible winner has conceded his loss then the official announcement is just a formality. The race is over and you may as well invite the winner, in anticipation that his victory will be proclaimed in due course.
But if the other candidate hasn’t conceded, and the race has not been called, then there’s no basis for inviting someone who’s merely a probable winner. Probabilities have a way of reversing themselves.
I sadly agree with Milhouse on this one. Seems we here aren’t much better than Arizona counting votes. Elections should not be a circus.. 100 years ago states counted faster than in this information age. But guaranteed the longer it takes the more shenanigans go on.
In a close race, this pace is completely normal. We’ve always had such delays in close congressional races, as well as in state elections.
Other countries have such delays too, and when the majority in a legislature is in the balance, and the government depends on that majority, then it may not be clear for many weeks who the new government will be. In the meantime the old government continues in office, until its loss is final.
McCormick hasn’t won anything yet and shouldn’t be installed into the Senate. I don’t care if someone concedes a race or what any corporate press outlet says. When the votes are counted and McCormick has more than Casey that’s when he wins the election
Peoples ire should not be directed at Schumer. People should be angry at States who have such disastrously incompetent election systems that they are still counting votes almost a week after election day.
Both can be true simultaneously. Schumer choosing to move ahead with orientation before the election results are finalized is bad.
Worse, IMO, is any State designing an elections process that can’t be completed, including dealing with provisional ballots which is the issue in PA with something like 80K+ of them, within 3 days post election; cob on Friday. Obviously if there’s a demanded or mandatory recount then taking until Sunday Eve to resolve with a manual recount process seems reasonable. But still going on the following Monday? Oh hell no.
I upvoted. But I think people’s ire should always be directed at Schumer. Because he’s a power-hungry camera hog who doesn’t care about America or Americans.
Didn’t everyone call the Senate race?
NOT THE PEOPLE THAT MATTERED – you know, the actual vote counters. I don’t give a carp what the AP says, or Fox News, or even the “Decision Desk.” None of them are the legal arbiters of the results of the race.
As others have said, there is a problem with the vote counting. But that is NOT cause for relying on media calling the race. It’s cause to finalize the current race and fix the problems holding it up.
And Schumer shouldn’t start orientation until every race is finalized.
(Now, if you want to return to the days before the popular vote for Senator, I could see Schumer punishing the state for not getting this done in a timely fashion. But not with the current rules.)