Allan Smith is a political reporter for NBC News.
Democratic Sen. Bob Casey is one of the longest-serving senators in Pennsylvania’s history. But his run of electoral success ended last month when he narrowly lost to Republican challenger Dave McCormick. Now, with just weeks remaining in his 18-year Senate career, Casey is reflecting on what went wrong for him and his party in what was the most consequential battleground state on the map.
I guess the short answer is I don’t know and nobody knows. It’s just all speculation. But look, I’ve had a great privilege to serve the people of our state for 28 years … and I was also fortunate to be in the Senate at moments where legislation not only passed, but legislation that I worked on was passing that will shape the lives of Americans, not just for years, but for generations.
Part of it isn’t to rewrite the whole approach. Part of it is to do what I’ve been doing, and a lot of senators have done, governors have done, but do more of it, and that’s to go to every community, as I’ve been doing for years, to talk about not just local issues, but local priorities that you’re working on. And I was able to go to every community in the state, and I could point to specific investments in that county that occurred only just in the last four years.
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