Pennsylvania's US Senate race goes to a recount as Casey refuses to concede to McCormick
Pennsylvania will conduct a recount in the state's unresolved U.S. Senate race, further delaying the declaration of the final result of the tight election that has drawn out for more than a week past Election Day.
While some media organizations have called the Pennsylvania race for Republican challenger David McCormick, incumbent Democrat Bob Casey hasn't conceded.
Pennsylvania law requires the state to pay for a recount if a race is within 0.5 percentage points. Unofficial results on Wednesday evening showed McCormick ahead of incumbent Democrat Bob Casey by 0.43 percent, about 28,000 votes, according to Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt.
The Associated Press called the race for McCormick on Nov. 8, three days after the election, and Republicans are already projected to have a majority in the upper chamber regardless of the outcome in Pennsylvania due to other Republican pickups in Montana, Ohio and West Virginia.
Schmidt, a Republican, said Pennsylvania has called for a recount under the law seven times in the past 20 years, and four of them confirmed the winner of the election. The trailing candidates in the other three races waived the recount.
Casey has not waived a recount.
Counties are required to start the recount by Wednesday and must finish by Nov. 26, Schmidt said. The results will be posted to his office's website the next day.