PENNSYLVANIA — This week, David McCormick’s campaign amplified an endorsement from Jim Jordan, a prominent election denier and anti-abortion extremist. As McCormick touts the endorsement, he has yet to answer for his deep ties to fake electors and insurrectionists involved in plots to overturn the 2020 election and his support for an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest.
Pennsylvania Democratic Party spokesperson TaNisha Cameron issued the following statement:
“David McCormick stands with election deniers and anti-abortion extremists because he shares their dangerous agenda to push conspiracy theories and ban abortion. McCormick’s deep ties to Jim Jordan – who wrote a bill to ban abortions nationwide and supported lawsuits to overturn the 2020 election – are another reason Pennsylvanians can’t trust him.”
Here’s Jim Jordan’s History of Supporting Anti-Abortion Legislation and Election Denying:
- Jim Jordan authored a bill that would ban abortions nationwide.
- Jordan is also a prominent election denier:
- He urged Donald Trump not to concede the 2020 election.
- He supported lawsuits attempting to overturn the 2020 election.
- He discussed plans to object to the 2020 election results hours before the January 6 insurrection.
Here’s a Look at David McCormick’s Own Ties to Election Deniers:
- McCormick hired a fake elector who was part of an effort to overturn the 2020 election to run his Super PAC.
- McCormick paid a criminally indicted co-conspirator in Donald Trump’s fake elector scheme in Georgia to help his recount efforts in the 2022 Pennsylvania Senate Republican primary.
- McCormick paid multiple fake electors and others involved in plots to overturn the 2020 election during his 2022 campaign for Senate in Pennsylvania.
- McCormick was endorsed by Doug Mastriano, an outspoken election denier and January 6 insurrectionist. McCormick has never denounced Mastriano’s participation in the January 6 insurrection.
Here’s a Look at David McCormick’s Dangerous Abortion Agenda:
- When asked directly in a debate last year whether he believed there should be exceptions for abortion in the cases of rape, incest, or life of the mother, McCormick responded only “in the very rare instances there should be exceptions for the life of the mother.”
- Axios: “David McCormick…said during a debate in Harrisburg last month he’s fully against all scenarios involving abortion, apart from ‘in the very rare instances there should be exceptions for the life of the mother.’”
- HuffPost: “McCormick has said that life begins at conception and that he does not support exceptions in abortion laws for rape or incest.”
- HuffPost: “McCormick said in a May 2022 debate with Oz that he supports banning abortion with an exception only when the pregnant person’s life is in danger, and not in cases of rape or incest.”
- WESA: There was no “pushback from the McCormick campaign.”
- Before the Dobbs decision leaked, McCormick said he would be a “stalwart opponent of abortion.”
- McCormick repeatedly praised the leaked Supreme Court opinion draft overturning Roe as a “huge victory” and “huge step forward.”
- McCormick’s 2022 campaign website said he was “staunchly pro-life.”
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