Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday defended U.S. Sen. Bob Casey’s decision to move forward with a recount, pointing to Republican Dave McCormick’s own unsuccessful recount in 2022 in a much closer election.

Pennsylvania Republicans took to the polls in the May 2022 primary and nominated celebrity physician Dr. Mehmet Oz their Senate candidate. Oz eked out that victory by just 940 votes over hedge-fund executive Dave McCormick and would go on to lose the general election to stroke-ridden John Fetterman — a race widely seen as a missed GOP pickup opportunity that handed Democrats a Joe Manchin-proof Senate majority.

The lawsuits are a significant escalation of litigation over the race for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat, in which McCormick leads by less than 0.3% of the vote, according to unofficial results from

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has agreed with the state’s Supreme Court that ruled certain mail-in ballots shouldn’t be counted. Shapiro,

Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court is weighing in on a flashpoint amid ongoing vote counting in the U.S. Senate election between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick