The campaign for Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick attempted to highlight crime driven by border insecurity — but in doing so, the campaign appeared to mix up two entirely separate Philadelphias.
The campaign page for McCormick, a hedge fund businessman running against incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, reposted a crime story from the far-right account End Wokeness involving an unauthorized immigrant in Philadelphia who was accused of a shooting on behalf of the violent MS-13 street gang. The gang originated in California but is associated with Salvadoran immigrants.
"MS-13 gang members are terrorizing Philadelphians because of Harris & Casey's radical open border policies," McCormick's account wrote, trying to tie his opponent's political record to the crime....