McCormick, ex-hedge fund CEO, aims to be hometown boy in Pennsylvania's key Senate race
HARRISBURG, Pa. - As CEO of the world's largest hedge fund, David McCormick wore suits, lived on Connecticut's ritzy Gold Coast, talked up bipartisanship and described China as America's most important "bilateral relationship."Now, as a Republican running for U.S.
Senate in Pennsylvania, McCormick wears jeans and casual dress shirts. He recounts the greatest hits of the right's culture war attacks on Democrats — paranoia about illegal immigration and the left using school curriculum to teach a history of America that's "not the America I know" — and he frames China as an "existential threat."For McCormick, spinning the narrative of a hometown boy-done-good and hewing to the politics of Trumpism is central to his candidacy in a premier battleground Senate race.But he is facing skepticism — and, as a leading candidate, attack ads — that his international business past is counter to former President Donald Trump’s "America First" governing philosophy and that he's a carpetbagging political opportunist trying to buy the seat.Now, instead of Wall Street name-dropping or telling anecdotes about meeting with a Chinese CEO, he's name-dropping small towns and telling anecdotes about growing up in Pennsylvania."I baled hay on my family farm.
I trimmed Christmas trees," he recently told listeners seated on foldout chairs at foldout tables in a wood-paneled room in the rear of Heisey’s Diner about 75 miles west of Philadelphia.
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