2024
2024-10-01
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: platform_vs_vote
McCormick campaigned as a fiscal conservative attacking Casey for 'EVERY spending package,' yet his decisive vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act — which the CBO projected would add $3.3 trillion to the deficit — represents a profound contradiction between his deficit-hawk campaign rhetoric and his governing choices.
2022
2022-02-08
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: statement_vs_disclosure
McCormick's 2023 book frames China as an 'existential threat,' but as Bridgewater CEO he oversaw the firm raising over $1 billion for Chinese investments, making Bridgewater one of the largest foreign fund managers in China — a tension his campaign dismisses as involving a 'small fraction' of assets but which critics characterize as profiting from the very Chinese growth he now condemns.
2008
2008-02-15
VOTED CONTRA
Vote contradicts: reversal
McCormick reinvented himself from a free-trade, pro-globalization Treasury official who warned against 'protectionism' into a Trump-aligned senator who now embraces tariffs as 'fair trade' — a complete reversal he himself characterizes as having 'evolved on the tariff issue.'
What this view assembles
- Promises & violations — every documented commitment + each documented break, with primary sources.
- Contradiction pairs — fact-against-fact entries from the contradictions ledger; the "said" appears in its year, the "did" appears in its year.
- Vote-based analyses — for elected officials, every documented case where a vote diverged from a stated commitment.
- Entity events — major dated events recorded against the entity (acquisitions, indictments, appointments, etc.).
This view DOES NOT auto-detect new drift candidates. It surfaces records that are already on file. If you spot an undocumented inversion, the curator workflow (admin) is where to add it.
