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David McCormick: “We're in deep trouble as a country and we're going in so…”

Featuring: David McCormick, Republican | U.S. Senate, Pennsylvania

Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24

Published April 8, 2024 | Video Starts at 04:53

Why? Well, thanks for having me. And the last time I ran because I thought the country was headed in the wrong direction. And this time it's even more true. We're in deep trouble as a country and we're going in so many [wrong directions]. We'll talk about these issues, but the economy, the border, our security is truly at risk. Crime, crime. (04:53–04:57)

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“The last time I ran because I thought the country was headed in the wrong direction.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 04:45-04:51
“The economy, the border, our security is truly at risk.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 04:57-05:03
“I think I'm a much more formidable candidate.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 05:53-05:56
“60% of Pennsylvanians are living paycheck to paycheck.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 08:40-08:46
“In the last three years under Joe Biden, prices have gone up on average by 18%.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 08:45-09:00
“Wages have gone up by 14% [in the last three years under Joe Biden].”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 08:51-08:55
“The payment on your pickup truck's up by 60%.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 09:06-09:09
“Every American today has $100,000 of debt on their head if you take the $34 trillion of debt and put it across our economy.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 09:13-09:22
“Under Joe Biden, it's been a hockey stick [in terms of spending].”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 09:37-09:40
“Those $6 trillion of new spending bills, Bob Casey, my opponent in the Senate, voted for every one of them.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 09:40-09:46
“They reduced the ability to drill and chip our energy abroad. They killed the Keystone pipeline.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 09:48-09:56
“He's [Bob Casey] voted for sanctuary cities.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 12:35-27:37
“The cause of inflation is too much spending and bad energy policy, which has drove up prices.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 12:51-12:57
“Small businesses like yours or what create 80% of the jobs in America.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 13:27-13:32
“He [Bob Casey] has said... that the problem with our law enforcement is systemic racism.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 14:21-27:57
“The idea that you would allow permit biological males to compete with our daughters is absolute madness. And that's where the Democratic…”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 18:13-18:27
“To allow kids to make irreconcilable or irreversible irreversible decisions before they're truly adults is truly a crime against humanity.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 18:47-19:00
“The idea that they've taken trillions of dollars to completely re engineer our economy, to have an outright war against fossil fuels, and in…”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 19:56-20:15
“Under the Biden administration, the U.S. army released its climate change strategy before it released its war fighting strategy.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 20:26-20:33
“Larry Krasner, the Soros funded prosecutor, has put in place a policy where if you steal less than $1,000, you aren't prosecuted.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 25:33-25:42
“In 2020, [Pittsburgh] had 1,000 police officers. Today they had 750 on the way to 650.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 26:39-26:46
“Bob Casey has been terrible on this. Last week he got an endorsement from indivisible Philadelphia, which is a defund the police movement.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 27:25-27:34
“In Pittsburgh, despite a new police officer making 65,000 a year, they cannot recruit enough people to fill these slots.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 28:02-28:11
“Without [the police], we're going to lose our society.”
Dave on The Volpe Report (Part 1) 4.7.24 | Uploaded April 8, 2024 | 28:33-28:36