GOP Senate candidate attacks NYT reporter over article on his upbringing

Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate Dave McCormick posted several times online Thursday targeting a New York Times reporter ahead of the publication of an article detailing his upbringing.

His posts on the social platform X were directed at the Times’s national political reporter, Katie Glueck, who is “writing a story filled w/ frivolous lies about my childhood,” McCormick said.

“If it weren’t so demeaning to my parents’ lifelong teaching careers & the college town I’m so proud to have been raised in, it might be funny,” he continued

The article, published Friday, highlighted the candidates’ claims that he grew up in rural…