SCORECARD · DAVE MCCORMICK in office since 2025-01-03

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Republican U.S. Senate · PA full conduct profile →
72/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
69
Contradiction risk25%
91
Connection density20%
29
Donor influence10%
85
Fact density10%
76
Constituency deviation5%
79
Voting misalignment5%
0

Weighted composite, 0–100. Identical to the figure on the Congress monitor. Each bar is the component's normalised 0–100 contribution before weighting.

01

Silence on donor-funded topics 6

Topics where donors have documented interests but the official has no public statement on record. Silence is the absence of expected speech — not proof of intent.

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02

Vote-vs-platform contradictions 0

Roll-call votes that contradict the official's own stated platform commitments. Each links to the bill and the contradiction rationale.

No platform-contradicting votes among 296 votes on file. 1 aligned, 9 related.

03

Broken promises 0

Documented public commitments paired with the documented action that broke them. Each carries a primary-source citation for the violation.

No documented broken promises on file.

04

Documented contradictions 3

Stated-position-vs-revealed-conduct contradictions analysed against the official's commitments, scored by strength of the contradiction.

  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 90
    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.
  • reversal SCORE 90
    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.'
  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    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.
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What this scorecard does and doesn't claim

Every figure above is a count of records the platform already holds, each click-through-able to its source. The scorecard adds no inference, no forecast, and no narrative — it aggregates what is documented.

A populated scorecard is not a finding of corruption. It documents the volume of stated-vs-revealed tension, donor-adjacent silence, and broken commitments on the public record for this official. Silence in particular is the absence of an expected statement; it can have innocent explanations and is never presented as proof. Read each item's source before drawing conclusions.

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