After Democratic senate candidate Katie McGinty posted disappointing fundraising numbers and continues to be mired by attacks from the left about her relationship with the oil and gas industry, it seems McGinty’s campaign chairman is hedging his bets on her candidacy.
In a profile about McGinty’s primary challenger Joe Sestak, former Pennsylvania Governor and McGinty campaign Chairman Ed Rendell tells PennLive:
In this day and age when people seem to be anti-establishment, that’s not such a bad thing to say, ‘I’m running against the political bosses’…Joe marches to his own drum.
This draws sharp contrast to McGinty’s "establishment" status after she attended a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee retreat and has received substantial fundraising help from Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and others from the DC-establishment including California Senator Barbara Boxer and New York Senator Chuck Schumer.
But this isn’t the first time that Rendell has been supportive of Sestak. In March Rendell told The Hill:
Anyone who thinks Joe Sestak will be easy to beat in a primary is crazy. Joe has worked extremely hard the last four years…Anyone who undertakes a primary should do so at their own peril.