Speaker 1: I say, this is the seventy seven WABC Mini Cast.
Speaker 2: Friday Evening calling you today as we have Senator David
Speaker 2: McCormick from the great state of Pennsylvania, a former Army
Speaker 2: officer and a great US Senator in Pennsylvania. Along with Yes,
Speaker 2: he looks like you might be a lot better than
Speaker 2: we thought originally. Sanata Fetterman from Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: Give me hey, John.
Speaker 2: Senator McCormick can give us an update. What's going on?
Speaker 1: Well? Great, great, great to be with you. Yeah, listen,
Speaker 1: I'm now a year and a half into into being
Speaker 1: the Senator from Pennsylvania. I like to I like to
Speaker 1: say I'm the best dress Senator from Pennsylvania, and even
Speaker 1: John Fetterman, my buddy, agrees with that, and I think
Speaker 1: he's probably the most popular. But that's been a great surprise.
Speaker 1: We have found a way to work together. And you know,
Speaker 1: we we vote very differently a lot of the time.
Speaker 1: We have lots of disagreements, but we don't focus on that.
Speaker 1: We focus on the things we agree on, stopping fentanyl,
Speaker 1: unlocking energy of supporting the fight against anti Semitism, supporting
Speaker 1: America's use of force abroad to protect America's interest in
Speaker 1: the Middle East against Iran and a nuclear threat. And listen,
Speaker 1: I trust him. He's been nothing but straightforward and we're
Speaker 1: good friends. And so that's been a real pleasant surprise.
Speaker 1: And the thing that's happened, John, is you've seen just
Speaker 1: in that eighteen months, the Democratic Party has lost its mind.
Speaker 1: And this extreme part of the party I like to
Speaker 1: call it, the Graham Platner wing of the party, which
Speaker 1: is anti military, anti law enforcement, anti business, anti Semitic,
Speaker 1: and anti America. That part of the party has become
Speaker 1: and gained the support of mainstream Democrats, including just recently
Speaker 1: with the lsieed in Michigan. And I mean, this is
Speaker 1: a direction that I never thought i'd see in my lifetime.
Speaker 1: When I was a soldier, we were fighting against the
Speaker 1: Soviet Union, and I never thought when the Cold War ended,
Speaker 1: we'd have to fight against socialism and communism. I thought
Speaker 1: those were in the dustbin of history. But that's been
Speaker 1: the defining thing of the last eighteen months for me.
Speaker 2: A lot of common sense Democrats feel the same way
Speaker 2: as you do, Senator, in what I tell all my
Speaker 2: Republican friends is let's get all the common sense Democrats
Speaker 2: working together with the common sense Republicans and take back America.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no doubt about it. And listen, I just
Speaker 1: came back from two thousand miles twenty six counties over
Speaker 1: eleven days. And the thing you see across these communities
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania, they just want people to solve problems. They
Speaker 1: want to stop the flow of fentanyl into their communities,
Speaker 1: which we've made huge progress on. John it was four
Speaker 1: thousand Pennsylvanians died in the last year of Biden administration.
Speaker 1: It's now in one year due defense and all. It
Speaker 1: was sixteen hundred in the first year of the Trump administration,
Speaker 1: down sixty percent.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: They want the cost of living to go down. They
Speaker 1: want to be able to buy a house, which is
Speaker 1: why we just passed this Road to Housing Act, which
Speaker 1: is going to bring down the cost of housing. When
Speaker 1: I was right when I got out of the Army,
Speaker 1: the average age for an American to own a home
Speaker 1: was twenty eight It's forty one today. So they want
Speaker 1: people who are going to solve problems. And so that's
Speaker 1: why I've focused on voting for things that are going
Speaker 1: to bring that kind of policy to working families in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: The Working Families Tax Cut Act was a big part
Speaker 1: of that. It's lowering the cost of living, it's bringing
Speaker 1: back forty five hundred dollars for every family with an
Speaker 1: average income of fifty five and childcare tax credit. These
Speaker 1: are the things that they care about and they don't
Speaker 1: want to get caught up in this crazy ideological leftist
Speaker 1: part of the Democratic Party. And that's why I think
Speaker 1: we will do better than people expect in the midterms.
Speaker 2: I agree with you what you said before. The Democrats
Speaker 2: might have the Republicans might have a few items that
Speaker 2: not everybody agrees with, but the Democrats have lost their
Speaker 2: Brian have lost their mind. I mean I we just
Speaker 2: want common sense. And you know something, Pennsylvania, where you're from,
Speaker 2: where I have a big investments in Pennsylvania, always had
Speaker 2: common sense. Senator McCormick, thank you for calling in this Friday.
Speaker 2: We got so much to talk about. Let's talk on
Speaker 2: Sunday too.
Speaker 1: You got it, John, looking forward to it. Thank you.