Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick (R) was mocked Wednesday after his X account confused Philadelphia, Mississippi with Pennsylvania’s biggest city.
McCormick’s X account shared a clip of a news report from a local Mississippi news station reporting on a shooting that police said was carried out by an alleged gang member from El Salvador.
The account took aim at Vice President Harris and Casey over their policies on immigration in the post.
“MS-13 gang members are terrorizing Philadelphians because of Harris & Casey’s radical open border policies,” McCormick captioned the post.
The post was deleted minutes after it was posted, ABC 27 reported.
A spokesperson for Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), his opponent in the key Senate race, shared a communications team a screenshot of the post.
“Dave, this story is from Philadelphia, Mississippi — not Philadelphia, PA,” Maddy McDaniel, the communications director for Casey, wrote on X.
“Philly cop cars look like this — hope this helps!” she added, along with a photo.
The Casey campaign trolled McCormick by sharing photos of maps showing where the two Philadelphias are located.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) also seized on the mistake, taking aim at McCormick over his ties to Connecticut.
“Things like this tend to happen for people who live in Connecticut but run for the Senate in Pennsylvania,” Fetterman wrote.
A spokesperson for McCormick acknowledged the mistake in a statement to The Hill.
“We made a mistake in our tweet, and that’s not nearly as bad as what Bob Casey did when he enabled illegal immigrant gang members to terrorize Americans because of his and Harris’s radical open border policies,” the spokesperson said.
McCormick has faced criticism from his opponents for owning a home in Connecticut that he had listed as his primary address. The Associated Press reported that McCormick’s vote in the 2022 Republican primary, which he lost to celebrity heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, was his first in Pennsylvania in 16 years.
