Trump-Backed Senate Hopeful Has Extensive ‘Deep State’ Ties
As he runs for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, Dave McCormick’s claims to his “home state” have been a source of contention on the campaign trail: the Republican hedge fund titan spent much of his youth in Pennsylvania, but has lived out most of his recent adult and professional days in Connecticut.
While the extent of McCormick’s ties to his “home state” are cloudy, his ties to another state—the “deep state”—seem far more clear.
Despite his claims to the MAGA movement, McCormick is steeped in the nexus of government, intelligence, and big business that Donald Trump and his acolytes ambiguously refer to as “the deep state.”