PA GOP Senate primary battle: Former Trump-backed candidate Sean Parnell endorses Dave McCormick

EXCLUSIVE: Sean Parnell, the former Trump-backed Senate candidate from Pennsylvania who recently suspended his campaign, endorsed Republican Dave McCormick in the hotly-contested race on Thursday. 

McCormick, the former CEO of one of the world’s largest hedge funds who also has ties to former President Trump, declared his candidacy for Senate on Thursday. McCormick joins a crowded field of Republicans, including well-known celebrity physician Mehmet Oz, who are vying for the GOP nomination to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania. 

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“I have been watching and hoping a candidate would emerge–someone who could give me total confidence that they will fight for Pennsylvanians and never back down to the Woke mob, but that just hasn’t happened, until now,” Parnell told Fox News. “Dave McCormick is that candidate.” 

Parnell said he has “gotten to know” McCormick and said the two have been “talking about issues that are important to the commonwealth and discussing what it’s going to take to secure Pennsylvania’s future.” 

Parnell pointed to McCormick’s efforts to create jobs in Pittsburgh during his time as CEO of FreeMarkets, a publicly-traded technology firm that employed nearly 600 workers in the city. 

“Dave’s entrepreneurial vision helped spark Pittsburgh’s revitalization,” Parnell said,…