GOP Incumbent Walks Line in PA on Supporting Trump
If anyone deserves to be on shakey ground, it’s the Prime RINO hunter, Pat Toomey, who does. So this gives me a chuckle as Mr. Club For Growth keeps the GOP candidate away. Will Pat lose in his gerrymandered district? Who knows, but it’s fun to watch him run away from the Great Trumpkin.
In the battleground state of Pennsylvania, first term Republican senator Pat Toomey is considered one of the most vulnerable incumbents in the country.
His race with Democratic challenger Katie McGinty, a former state environmental official, is virtually tied with just over two weeks before election day. And with Democrats needing to flip just four Republican senate seats to take control of the chamber if Hillary Clinton wins, the race in Pennsylvania is one of a handful likely to have national implications.
Across the state Toomey and McGinty have sparred over a litany of issues from taxes to reproductive rights to trade. But it’s Sen. Toomey’s relationship to the top of the Republican party’s ticket that has become a key point in the race. While Republicans across the country have either stood by Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, or in some cases distanced themselves completely, Toomey is the only senator running for reelection that hasn’t said whether he will vote for or support his party’s nominee.