Pennsylvania senator Bob Casey Jr.’s electoral fate was decided by voters on November 5, with an outcome apparent to all before the end of the night: After a remarkable streak of political fortune in the Keystone State, the three-term Democrat was narrowly defeated by Republican businessman Dave McCormick. Although he ran ahead of Kamala Harris in the state, Casey’s incumbency (and family name) provided insufficient cushion to save him from being swamped by Donald Trump’s larger statewide margin of victory on the presidential ballot, which carried McCormick — already a strong challenger — over the finish line. It was the end to a long and undistinguished career for Casey, a D.C. politician most respected by Pennsylvanians for the career of his father.
Except Bob Casey has refused to admit that it is over. This was perhaps understandable in the immediate days after the vote, as Casey entertained the forlorn hope that outstanding mail-in and absentee ballots in populous Democratic-leaning counties would disproportionately break in his favor. But it was already clear by November 12, when the editors of National Review first wrote about Casey’s intransigence, that the math simply could not possibly add up for him, as indeed it has not.
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