Keystone: Dave McCormick Invested In Chinese Fentanyl Before Wanting To Ban It During Campaign
Philadelphia Inquirer: David McCormick Called the Overturning of Roe v. Wade “A Huge Victory”
PENNSYLVANIA — Today in Langhorne, state Representative Jim Prokopiak and Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie continued the Don’t Trust Dave Tour with a press conference outside of David McCormick’s campaign event to call out his dangerous record of investing in the biggest fentanyl producer in China and calling for reproductive freedoms to be ripped away. McCormick’s record shows he is out for himself while he makes Pennsylvanians pay the price.
“David McCormick calling the overturning of Roe v. Wade a ‘huge victory’ is exactly why Pennsylvanians can’t trust him to be for them,” said state Representative Jim Prokopiak. “His dangerous abortion agenda – that includes support for an abortion ban with no exceptions for rape or incest is disqualifying for Pennsylvania.”
“David McCormick invested in China’s largest fentanyl producer, while thousands of Pennsylvanians were killed, making it clear that he’ll put his own bottom line ahead of our families,” said Bucks County Commissioner Bob Harvie. “We need leaders, like Bob Casey, who have a proven record of fighting the fentanyl crisis.”
Read More About McCormick’s Dangerous Record:
- As CEO of the world’s largest hedge fund, David McCormick invested in the biggest fentanyl producer in China.
- McCormick led Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, while it invested nearly $1.7 million in China’s largest fentanyl producer.
- China is the source of the vast majority of the fentanyl that Mexican drug cartels traffic into the U.S.
- McCormick led Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, while it invested nearly $1.7 million in China’s largest fentanyl producer.
- The same year McCormick made these investments, fentanyl killed more than 4,000 Pennsylvanians and fentanyl seizures in Pennsylvania increased by 346%.
- When asked directly in a debate last year whether he believed there should be exceptions for abortion in the cases of rape, incest, or life of the mother, McCormick responded only “in the very rare instances there should be exceptions for the life of the mother.”
- Axios: “David McCormick…said during a debate in Harrisburg last month he’s fully against all scenarios involving abortion, apart from ‘in the very rare instances there should be exceptions for the life of the mother.’”
- HuffPost: “McCormick has said that life begins at conception and that he does not support exceptions in abortion laws for rape or incest.”
- HuffPost: “McCormick said in a May 2022 debate with Oz that he supports banning abortion with an exception only when the pregnant person’s life is in danger, and not in cases of rape or incest.”
- WESA: There was no “pushback from the McCormick campaign.”
- Before the Dobbs decision leaked, McCormick said he would be a “stalwart opponent of abortion.”
- McCormick repeatedly praised the leaked Supreme Court opinion draft overturning Roe as a “huge victory” and “huge step forward.”
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