The shake-up at the top of the ticket made political waves down ballot when President Joe Biden suspended his reelection campaign and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris last Sunday. U.S. Senate Candidate Dave McCormick toured a natural gas pad in Warren, Pennsylvania, Friday to contrast his “all of the above energy” goals with Harris’ resurfaced comments from her 2020 campaign that she would ban fracking.
Dave McCormick was quick to pivot to Kamala Harris this week as he vies for Senator Bob Casey’s Senate seat, considered one of the most likely pick-ups for Republicans to regain Senate control. McCormick released an ad Tuesday clipping Harris’ most liberal comments with Casey’s endorsement, calling Harris “the most liberal Presidential nominee in U.S. history.” The McCormick campaign points to Casey endorsing Harris as proof he is “deeply out of step with the needs of Pennsylvanians.” A 60-second version of the ad will air this Monday during the Olympics in the Scranton-Wilkes Barre and Pittsburgh markets.
Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick spoke to voters at the event. (Fox News)
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Former President Donald Trump and McCormick, who have both committed to unleashing American energy as pillars of their campaigns, latched onto comments made by then-candidate Kamala Harris at a CNN town hall. “There’s no question I’m in favor of banning fracking,” Harris said in 2019. Reacting to Harris’ resurfaced comments at a rally in North Carolina Wednesday Trump said, “She wants no fracking.” President Harris and her campaign have since walked back those now viral comments alleging, she would not ban fracking.
“Trump’s false claims about fracking bans are an obvious attempt to distract from his own plans to enrich oil and gas executives at the expense of the middle class,” a spokesperson for the Harris campaign shared in a statement with Fox News. “The Biden-Harris Administration passed…
