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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Politics
Anna Orso

David McCormick and Mehmet Oz made their pitch to Northeast Pennsylvania — at an ice fishing party

Pete Helms holds his annual ice fishing party at a hunting club that’s so deep in Pike County, its address doesn’t even register on Google Maps. To get there, you just have to know it’s a half-mile down a wooded, windy road from the Hammered Steel Tavern.

It may seem an unlikely place for a U.S. Senate candidate to sell himself to voters just weeks before the May 17 primary election. Even more surprising? Two at once.

But on Thursday, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee stood in front of a fireplace inside the Tall Oaks Hunting Club to talk about his support for David McCormick, a former hedge fund CEO and one of the front-runners in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary.

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