News Analysis: Democrat Casey attacks Pennsylvania rival McCormick with invented claim

— Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), speaking to the camera in a new ad, released Oct. 10.

The Senate race between Casey, the incumbent, and former hedge fund manager Dave McCormick is one of the closest in the nation and could determine control of the chamber. In this ad, Casey walks out of a bank vault as he complains that McCormick’s “billionaire buddies” have spent $150 million attacking him.

Then he does something unusual — he directly attacks McCormick as having “made clear he’ll slash your Medicare and Social Security and cut Medicaid for nursing home care.”

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