As McCormick Refuses to Answer Questions about Trump, New Reporting Reveals Trump Fake Elector Facing Charges in Georgia Previously Worked for McCormick Campaign
PENNSYLVANIA — As David McCormick continues to refuse to answer questions about Donald Trump, new reporting from The Pennsylvania Capital-Star reveals multiples ties between McCormick and Trump’s fake elector plot, including nearly $40,0000 paid to Mike Roman, a special assistant and political operative for former President Donald Trump who is currently facing charges in Georgia:
Pennsylvania Capital-Star: In the weeks before and after his loss in the 2022 race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, Dave McCormick’s campaign paid nearly $40,000 to a special assistant and political operative for former President Donald Trump.
Michael Roman, who reported to former White House counsel Don McGahn and served as Trump’s head poll watcher in 2020, is now accused with Trump and 17 others of a plot to overturn the results of Georgia’s presidential election.
Public records and published reports show Roman is one of five people with ties to McCormick and his 2022 Senate campaign who played roles in the so-called fake elector plan to disrupt the certification of electoral college votes for President Joe Biden on Jan. 6, 2021 by presenting slates of votes for Trump from seven battleground states.
This isn’t McCormick’s only tie to Trump’s fake elector scheme. The Connecticut hedge fund executive recently appeared at an event with fake elector Same DeMarco, who also runs McCormick’s PAC PA Rising. Once again, McCormick has refused to answer questions about his ties to Trump’s fake elector plot, Trump’s indictment, or whether McCormick will endorse Trump.
ICYMI: Pennsylvania Capital-Star: Trump advisor charged in Georgia fake elector scheme worked on McCormick’s U.S. Senate bid
- In the weeks before and after his loss in the 2022 race for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination, Dave McCormick’s campaign paid nearly $40,000 to a special assistant and political operative for former President Donald Trump.
- Michael Roman, who reported to former White House counsel Don McGahn and served as Trump’s head poll watcher in 2020, is now accused with Trump and 17 others of a plot to overturn the results of Georgia’s presidential election.
- Public records and published reports show Roman is one of five people with ties to McCormick and his 2022 Senate campaign who played roles in the so-called fake elector plan to disrupt the certification of electoral college votes for President Joe Biden on Jan. 6, 2021 by presenting slates of votes for Trump from seven battleground states.
- McCormick’s association with people involved with the scheme has been cast into the light by dual indictments alleging Trump was at the tip of a criminal conspiracy to subvert the will of voters.
- Political strategists have said such ties will be liabilities for McCormick if he decides to run and wins the Republican nomination.
- “The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee and Casey will hold McCormick accountable for the company he keeps,” Democratic campaign consultant Neil Oxman told The Capital-Star.
- A spokesperson for McCormick did not respond to a detailed list of questions emailed last week.
- Two other fake electors, Bill Bachenberg and Suk Smith, and the secretary of the electoral college meeting where the Trump votes were cast, Lisa Vranicar-Patton, also received money for their work or support for the McCormick campaign.
- Federal election commission records show Patton received $1,330.70 from McCormick’s PAC in February 2022 for travel expenses. Patton tweeted a photo of herself with McCormick and U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser, R-9th District, at the Pennsylvania Farm Show.
- Bachenberg, who was chairperson of the Trump electoral college meeting, hosted an event for McCormick at his business, Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays, a trap shooting range in Coplay, Lehigh County. The business received $1,060 from the campaign for event catering, federal campaign finance records show.
- In the indictment handed down by a Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury last week, Roman is charged with seven felonies including violations of the state’s Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations law, forgery; and conspiracies to impersonate a public officer, commit forgery, make false statements, and file false documents.
- [The indictment] states that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani designated Roman, who was the Trump campaign’s chief of election day operations, “as the lead for executing the voting” by the fake electors on Dec. 14, 2020.
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