{"id":2073,"date":"2024-11-12T14:04:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T14:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/schumer-invites-mccormick-and-gallego-to-senate-orientation\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T14:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T14:04:42","slug":"schumer-invites-mccormick-and-gallego-to-senate-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/schumer-invites-mccormick-and-gallego-to-senate-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer invites McCormick and Gallego to Senate orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has extended Senate orientation invitations to Pennsylvania Republican Dave McCormick and Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego after previously withholding them while their respective races remained unsettled.<\/p>\n

Schumer previously insisted the Pennsylvania race had not yet been decided<\/u><\/a>, despite the Associated Press calling it for McCormick over incumbent Democrat Bob Casey, who has yet to concede. \u201cWe will invite the winner once the votes are counted,\u201d a spokesperson for Schumer said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The AP called Gallego\u2019s race late Monday night<\/u><\/a>, marking the final Senate race call of the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cRuben Gallego and David McCormick have been invited to attend orientation,\u201d a spokesperson for Schumer said Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

Schumer\u2019s decision comes after he faced growing pressure since Sunday to invite both senators-elect to the orientation. Republican senators opposed Schumer\u2019s decision to block McCormick on social media, even offering to escort <\/u><\/a>McCormick to the Capitol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has extended Senate orientation invitations to Pennsylvania Republican Dave McCormick and Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego after previously withholding them while their respective races remained unsettled. Schumer previously insisted the Pennsylvania race had not yet been decided, despite the Associated Press calling it for McCormick over incumbent Democrat Bob Casey, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}