It was Dec. 13, a few weeks before Bob Casey’s final day as a senator, but the mild mannered Democrat that Pennsylvanians had known for so long already seemed to have left office.
In his place was a man tired of appealing to the GOP — even if he was speaking to a room full of Republicans in rural Pennsylvania, packed into an 18th-century inn for what would be his last official event as a U.S. senator for the state.
The election was long over. Casey had conceded the tight race. And instead of touting his ability to work with Republicans — as he did for much of his reelection campaign — Casey was shaming Republicans for their collective inability to work with Democrats.