May 30, 2024 2 min read

Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate David McCormick is failing spectacularly at trying to connect with Pennsylvanians, and now he’s taken a step too far by pretending he grew up on a family farm.

Not only does he live in Connecticut and lie about it, but now it has come out that he is lying about his upbringing as a Pennsylvania farmer despite the fact he was the CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund.

I’m a sixth-generation farmer in Washington County. There is a big difference between people like myself who are carrying on a legacy and just trying to make our way growing food for our community and our commonwealth and those like McCormick, a wealthy tax cheat.

McCormick’s family raised Arabian horses as a hobby on the farm he claims to have grown up on. No Pennsylvania farmer I know would call that “farming.”

So, it’s wrong for McCormick to try and label himself a farmer when he clearly hasn’t earned it with the long days and early mornings that Pennsylvania farmers put in to provide for our families and feed our country. It’s wrong that he thought he could trick Pennsylvanians into believing this lie, just like he has done with so many of his lies about living in Pennsylvania or standing up to China.

We need honest leadership from our Pennsylvania senators. We need someone who can genuinely connect with Pennsylvanians without having to lie about entire parts of their background.

McCormick is simply out of touch with Pennsylvanians. He lives in a Connecticut mansion and made his millions shipping American jobs overseas. That is the truth, and no amount of lying can hide these facts, which make him unfit to be our next Pennsylvania senator.

Drew Ross Manko

Eighty Four