‘I’m a candidate for change,’ says GOP hopeful Dave McCormick.

WASHINGTON, PA – The race between three-term Democratic incumbent Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey and Republican challenger Dave McCormick is now considered a toss up – and the self-described “underdog” told The Post he sees only more gains in the polls. Profit is expected.

The highly respected, bipartisan Cook Political Report moved to lean Democratic on the race on Monday after recent polls showed McCormick tied and even ahead, though the RealClearPolitics average still has Casey ahead by 1.9 points. .

McCormick received the news while visiting gas wells in Washington County, southwest of Pittsburgh.

“This race is extremely competitive, and I have fallen behind in it,” the GOP businessman told The Post.

But he stressed that Pennsylvania will benefit from Casey’s long tenure and “the radicalism of Biden-Harris,” citing historic inflation under a Democratic White House and Senate, the fentanyl crisis “killing communities across Pennsylvania” and “attacks” on Dems. Wants to turn the page of “extremism”. Fossil fuel.”

“This is an election for change and I am a candidate for change,” McCormick said.

“The more people think about it, the higher my polling numbers go,” said the former hedge-fund executive and Gulf War veteran.

Jewish voters, long considered a Democratic mainstay, are showing up lowest support For example, for Democrats since the Reagan era: 62% of Jews are concerned about anti-Semitism in the party as Israel enters its second year fighting Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

These issues could help swing some of the 400,000 Jewish voters in Pennsylvania toward President Donald Trump and McCormick.

Pittsburgh Jewish Democrats tell The Post they are voting republican first time as casey Refused to cancel your support Representative Samar Lee, a member of the anti-Israel contingent, who represents the city and blames Israel for the October 7 massacre in which Hamas killed and abducted more than 1,400 people in the Jewish state.

But to win the race, McCormick said, “We have to turn out the Republican base. “They seem very energetic behind President Trump and me.”

A new survey from Trafalgar Group shows Trump 46% more than Kamala Harris’s 43% In the Keystone State, right after Trump whipped up the fryolator at an eastern Pennsylvania McDonald’s on Sunday. Five percent of voters are undecided, and 5% are behind other candidates.

FiveThirtyEight’s polling average has Trump ahead of Harris by 0.3 points.

But McCormick is waiting for undecided voters.

“They’re coming for me,” he said just before walking into Building America’s Future Town Hall with Wyoming Senator John Barrasso.

“I have a secret. I think I’m going to win,” McCormick told the audience.

KC released an advertisement on Friday to repel President Biden Days after The Washington Post, on making and breaking with Trump on trade policy called out Casey falsely claimed in another ad that McCormick wanted to cut Medicare and Social Security.

McCormick told The Post Friday that Casey is “panicking.”

Although Cook changed his rating of the race, he still predicts that the Democrats will take over the Senate.