Two carpetbaggers in a row: Oz, now McCormick.David McCormick, a former hedge fund CEO and current resident of Connecticut, announced Thursday that he’s running to be the Republican Senate nominee in ... Pennsylvania. And if an out-of-state resident seeking the GOP nomination in Pennsylvania sounds vaguely familiar to you, that’s because celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz tried the same thing last year and lost to Sen. John Fetterman (D) in humiliating fashion.
McCormick also ran in the GOP primary in 2022, but lost to the Trump-endorsed Oz by just 951 votes. Republican strategists have lamented ever since that McCormick could have beat Fetterman in the general election. (Donald Trump reportedly asked if it was a mistake to endorse Oz over McCormick.) But one of Oz’s major liabilities on the campaign trail was that he was an out-of-touch multi-millionaire carpetbagger who opposes abortion—and McCormick brings all that same baggage to the table.
The former CEO was raised in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, but later moved to Connecticut, with his family. (His wife is Dina Powell, a former Goldman Sachs executive and former Trump administration official.) Then, in late 2021, a few months before announcing his first Senate run, McCormick bought a house in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But he doesn’t actually live there—he lives in Westport, Connecticut, where his daughters go to a $53,000-a-year private school.
I understand he bought a house in the Squirrel Hill area of Pittsburgh. Nobody seems to know him there as a neighbor.
