{"id":969051,"date":"2021-11-04T18:44:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T22:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969051"},"modified":"2021-11-04T18:44:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T22:44:27","slug":"pennsylvania-republicans-court-bridgewater-ceo-and-army-veteran-for-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-republicans-court-bridgewater-ceo-and-army-veteran-for-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Republicans Court Bridgewater CEO and Army Veteran for Senate Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvania-republicans-court-bridgewater-ceo-and-army-veteran-for-senate-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969051&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.519607843137\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/\">Politics<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Republican leaders are pressing David McCormick to jump into the race to replace Republican Pat Toomey<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-04-at-5.09.25-PM-736x502-1.png\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-04-at-5.09.25-PM-e1636060203279.png 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-04-at-5.09.25-PM-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-04-at-5.09.25-PM-1024x698.png 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-04-at-5.09.25-PM-768x523.png 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-04-at-5.09.25-PM-1536x1047.png 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-04-at-5.09.25-PM-2048x1396.png 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-04-at-5.09.25-PM-1400x954.png 1400w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-04-at-5.09.25-PM-721x491.png 721w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tBridgewater Associates CEO David McCormick  \/  YouTube Screenshot\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/joseph-simonson\/\" title=\"Posts by Joseph Simonson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Joseph Simonson<\/a> \u2022 November 4, 2021 6:40 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"84.095453079652\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Republican primary in next year&#8217;s Pennsylvania Senate race may get more interesting, with <em>Politico<\/em> reporting that Republican leaders in the state are pressing the hedge fund CEO and Army veteran David McCormick to jump into the race.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">McCormick, a Pennsylvania native, is the CEO of the Connecticut-based hedge fund behemoth Bridgewater Associates. The West Point graduate and retired Army Ranger went on to serve as CEO of the Pittsburgh-based software company FreeMarkets before selling it in 2004. After a stint in the George W. Bush administration, McCormick took the helm of Bridgewater Associates in 2019.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Republican leaders are turning to McCormick out of a concern that the current candidates\u2014the military veteran Sean Parnell, the businessman Jeff Bartos, and conservative commentator Kathy Barnette\u2014are not strong enough to prevail in a key swing state. President Joe Biden won Pennsylvania in 2020 after former president Donald Trump narrowly won it in 2016. Republican senator Pat Toomey was reelected in 2016 with a constituency that differed from Trump&#8217;s: He saw more success with suburban voters than the former president and less in Pennsylvania&#8217;s rural areas. The challenge for Republicans will be to cobble together support from both groups.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Though Mitt Romney&#8217;s shellacking in 2012 has made Republicans skittish about running wealthy businessmen, Republican Glenn Youngkin\u2019s victory over Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia gubernatorial race on Tuesday is likely to heighten their appeal. While many thought that Youngkin&#8217;s wealth\u2014he is the multimillionaire former head of the private equity behemoth Carlyle Group\u2014would be a vulnerability, his victory suggests that swing state voters are open to candidates with executive experience at a time of economic uncertainty. McCormick would be the latest entrant into what is already a contested Republican primary in the race to succeed Toomey, who is retiring.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Prior to joining Bridgewater, McCormick served in the Treasury Department and on the National Security Council in the Bush administration, where he worked to compel China&#8217;s compliance with international rules on currency manipulation. A veteran of Operation Desert Storm, for which he was awarded a Bronze Star, McCormick remains a major donor to veterans&#8217; causes. Though he has no formal political experience, McCormick maintains a close connection to Trump: His wife, Dina Powell, served as a deputy national security adviser in the Trump administration and remains on good terms with the former president.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The race for the GOP nomination in Pennsylvania is wide open, with recent polling showing none of the candidates earning double-digit support.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On the Democratic side, voters will likely decide between Lieutenant Gov. John Fetterman and Rep. Conor Lamb (Pa.). The <em>Cook Political Report<\/em> has rated the race a tossup, although Republicans are increasingly confident they can hold the seat, given the right candidate, following their victory in Virginia and Biden\u2019s plummeting approval ratings.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Republican leaders are pressing David McCormick to jump into the race to replace Republican Pat Toomey  Bridgewater Associates CEO David McCormick \/ YouTube Screenshot &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}