Sen. Dave McCormick 'optimistic' about working with Sen. Fetterman to find 'common ground': 'Embracing' change

Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Dave McCormick is "optimistic" astir moving with his Democratic workfellow Sen. John Fetterman to tackle issues and bring a glimmer of bipartisan anticipation to Congress.

Sitting down with Fox News' Shannon Bream connected "Fox News Sunday," the freshman legislator discussed a bid of headlines – the archetypal signifier of Israel's cease-fire woody with Hamas, TikTok going acheronian and his willingness to enactment unneurotic with Fetterman, who has, astatine times, breached with his enactment connected issues similar borderline information and enactment for Israel.

"I wasn't elected to correspond lone Republicans. I was elected to correspond every azygous Pennsylvanian," McCormick said. "I deliberation that's the mode helium feels and so, adjacent though we're from antithetic parties, we person a mandate to assistance Pennsylvania. He's focused connected moving families. I'm focused connected moving families. We deliberation we tin find immoderate communal crushed together. He's been an incredibly beardown dependable connected Israel, against anti-Semitism. We find communal crushed connected that."

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Sen.-elect Dave McCormick, R-Pa., is seen successful the U.S. Capitol earlier the Republican enactment predetermination connected Wednesday, November 13, 2024.  (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

"We're going to disagree connected immoderate things, but we'll disagree agreeably, and we'll absorption connected the things we tin enactment connected together, and I deliberation helium recognizes what galore Democrats haven't recognized yet, which is the policies of President Biden and his party failed the American people, and we person a mandate for change, and I deliberation Senator Fetterman is embracing immoderate of that astatine least, and saying, ‘Hey, however tin I beryllium portion of that change?’"

McCormick and Fetterman and their wives broke breadstuff this period to hide the proverbial hatchet and find communal crushed connected issues that matter. 

In a Jan. 9 X post astir the meeting, Fetterman shared an representation of himself with McCormick and their wives with the caption, "2 dudes + 2 amended halves + bipartisanship + 67 counties = a stronger Pennsylvania." 

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Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., talks with West Point cadets successful the legislature subway connected Tuesday, November 19, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

McCormick was sworn successful earlier this month, replacing longtime Democratic Sen. Bob Casey aft narrowly defeating him successful the Nov. 5 predetermination past year. 

Fetterman received the rubric of the Keystone State's elder legislator successful the process.

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