PA Republican Senate candidate McCormick calls Putin 'tyrant' who 'needs to be kept in check'

Republican Senate candidate David McCormick of Pennsylvania says that Russian leader Vladimir Putin is "a bully" and "a tyrant on the world stage."

McCormick, a West Point graduate and Gulf War combat veteran who served as a Treasury Department official in former President George W. Bush's administration, told Fox News in an interview in Orlando, Florida, the day after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine that Putin "needs to be kept in check. We need to show strength."

And McCormick, who recently stepped down as the CEO of a hedge fund behemoth to launch his Senate bid in...