Fetterman trolls McCormick over report he’s living in Connecticut
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) went the ripped-from-the-headlines route for his latest attack against a potential Republican Senate candidate from the Keystone State.
Fetterman targeted former hedge fund CEO David McCormick on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, by posting an altered video of Tiffany Gomas — who went viral last month when she ranted on an American Airlines plane “that motherf–ker back there is NOT real.”
In Fetterman’s version of the video, Gomas’ rant is captioned: “That m***** f***** is not a PA resident.”
As the camera turns to focus where Gomas is pointing, one of the passengers is replaced by a superimposed picture of McCormick.
In a subsequent post, Fetterman implored his followers to donate to the re-election campaign of Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) “to keep a true Pennsylvanian in the Senate.”
Fetterman was responding to a Monday Associated Press report that McCormick spends much of his time at a rented mansion in Westport, Conn., despite purporting to live in Pennsylvania.
“Dave has called Pennsylvania home for 30 years and served our country outside of Pennsylvania for an additional 13. It’s the place he mailed letters back to when he served in Iraq and the place where three of his daughters were born,” McCormick rep Elizabeth Gregory told The Post Monday.
“While he maintains a residence in Connecticut as his daughters finish high school, Dave’s home is in Pittsburgh and for the last ten years he has owned a working farm in his hometown of Bloomsburg, which has been in the family for decades.”
Fetterman previously deployed the carpetbagger attack to great effect in his 2022 Senate race against Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz, a longtime New Jersey resident who shifted his voter registration to Pennsylvania less than a year before the midterm elections.
Thanks in large part to former President Donald Trump’s endorsement, Oz narrowly defeated McCormick in the Republican primary for the right to take on Fetterman.
Fetterman’s similarly tight victory over Oz secured the open seat held by retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey and gave Democrats a 51-49 Senate edge.
Fetterman suffered a stroke shortly before clinching the Democratic nod in May that left him saddled with a speech impediment and auditory processing issues.
Earlier this year, he checked himself into the hospital after he felt lightheaded and then again for clinical depression. Fetterman was later discharged and returned to the Senate in April.
McCormick is considered the top Republican contender to challenge Casey, who has already said he plans to run for a fourth six-year term.
Some state Republican strategists breathed a sigh of relief when 2022 gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, a supporter of Trump’s stolen election claims, announced in May that he wouldn’t vie for the seat.
Earlier this year, McCormick released a book titled, “Superpower in Peril: A Battle Plan to Renew America.”
Casey, who recently survived prostate cancer, is the son of a popular former governor and won re-election by 13 percentage points in 2018.
The 2024 Senate election map is shaping up to be brutal for Democrats, who have to defend 23 seats, including three held by Democrat-aligned independents.
Republicans only have to protect 11 seats.
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