{"id":2777,"date":"2024-11-21T23:34:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T23:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bob-casey-concedes-to-dave-mccormick-in-pennsylvania-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T23:34:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T23:34:22","slug":"bob-casey-concedes-to-dave-mccormick-in-pennsylvania-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bob-casey-concedes-to-dave-mccormick-in-pennsylvania-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Casey concedes to Dave McCormick in Pennsylvania Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sen. Bob Casey has conceded the Pennsylvania Senate race to Dave McCormick.<\/p>\n<p>Cased said in a statement Thursday that he had called to congratulate McCormick after the first results from a recount had been completed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis race was one of the closest in our Commonwealth\u2019s history, decided by less than a quarter of a point,\u201d he said. \u201cI am grateful to the thousands of people who worked to make sure every eligible vote cast could be counted, including election officials in all 67 counties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press had already called the race for McCormick but the results triggered an automatic recount under Pennsylvania law because the margin was within 0.5%.<\/p>\n<p>McCormick\u2019s win helped propel the Republicans to a 53-47 majority in the incoming Senate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Bob Casey has conceded the Pennsylvania Senate race to Dave McCormick. Cased said in a statement Thursday that he had called to congratulate McCormick after the first results from a recount had been completed. \u201cThis race was one of the closest in our Commonwealth\u2019s history, decided by less than a quarter of a point,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/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-2777","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\/2777","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=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}