2024 Election

Pennsylvania Senate Candidates Debate Their Ties to the Top of the Ticket

Both candidates appear to be tacking toward the middle and borrowing some policy positions from the other party.

U.S. Senator Bob Casey

Sen. Bob Casey at a rally at the Temple University Ambler campus in Ambler, PA. Bastiaan Slabbers/Sipa USA via AP

By Katherine Swartz

October 03, 2024 10:56 PM

HARRISBURG, PA — A Republican defending Medicare, social security and abortion. A Democrat promoting middle-class tax cuts and fracking.

It wasn’t the presidential debate — or the vice presidential debate, for that matter — but Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and his Republican challenger in Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick, made efforts to appear in line with the top of the ticket Thursday night.

Either top of the ticket, actually.