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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

Ex-hedge fund CEO aims to be hometown boy in key Senate race

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

As CEO of the world's largest hedge fund, David McCormick wore suits, lived on Connecticut's ritzy Gold Coast, talked up bipartisanship and described China as America's most important "bilateral relationship."

Now, as a Republican running for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, McCormick wears jeans and casual dress shirts. He recounts the greatest hits of the right's culture war attacks on Democrats — paranoia about illegal immigration and the left using school curriculum to teach a history of America that's “not the America I know" — and he frames China as an “existential threat."

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