Schumer Stalls on McCormick's Senate Orientation

Sen. Chuck Schumer is casting his vote in general election at Brooklyn Public School 321 in New York on Nov. 5. (Lev Radin/AP)

By    |   Sunday, 10 November 2024 08:07 PM EST ET

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has yet to invite the newly elected Republican senator from Pennsylvania, David McCormick, to the Senate's orientation this week.

Schumer, who will cede power as majority leader in January, has not yet invited McCormick, whose race is still being called by The New York Times, CNN, and NBC. According to Newsweek, if the race between McCormick and Democrat incumbent Bob Casey is within half a point, it would trigger an automatic recount, per state law. However, candidates can nonetheless request a recount regardless of the half-point margin.

In all three of the polls for Pennsylvania, 95% or more of the vote has been counted. However, according to a Schumer spokesperson who spoke to Fox News on Sunday, there are "over 100,000 ballots left to be counted in Pennsylvania, the race has not been decided. As is custom, we will invite the winner once the votes are counted."

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has yet to invite the newly elected Republican senator from Pennsylvania, David McCormick, to the Senate's orientation this week.
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