FILE - David McCormick, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, speaks during a campaign stop in Lititz, Pa., on May 13, 2022. The former hedge fun CEO McCormick is the favorite of party leaders and has drawn pledges of financial support from top Republican officials — should he decide to run for Senate in 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Likely Republican Senate hopeful David McCormick ran in Pennsylvania on a platform modeled after former President Donald Trump’s America First immigration platform, despite advocating for companies to hire “skilled immigrants” and criticizing Trump’s anti-migrant policies.

McCormick’s  campaign website from his 2022 Senate run suggests that he is on board with most of Trump’s immigration policies, such as building a wall on the southern border, implementing travel bans on primarily Muslim countries, creating jobs for Americans and ending the outsourcing of jobs overseas. In practice, McCormick has advocated for the opposite of each one of these policies and has criticized Trump’s policies on more than one occasion.

For years, McCormick praised the efforts some companies made to hire “skilled immigrants,” and he criticized multiple U.S. administrations for making it harder for them to come into the United States. As recently as 2021, McCormick criticized the Trump-era immigration policies and said that America should be implementing “smart immigration” policies to attract skilled migrants.

“Small in number, skilled migrants do little to threaten the jobs of American workers, but they boost the productivity and well-being of their U.S.-born counterparts,” McCormick wrote in Fortune in 2021. “Just last year, native- and foreign-born Americans accomplished arguably the greatest feat of innovation in recent memory by creating vaccines to combat the deadly pandemic at two American firms founded by immigrants — Pfizer and Moderna.”

Despite praising these efforts to create a COVID-19 vaccine, McCormick’s website also featured a section where he criticized vaccine mandates.

On travel bans, McCormick repeatedly called for Congress to increase the number of H-1B visas, which is contradictory to his campaign website. At the time, McCormick said that limiting immigrants coming into the U.S. is what caused the massive trend of companies outsourcing jobs overseas. However, as the CEO of FreeMarkets, McCormick spent years teaching other companies to outsource jobs with the goal of maximizing profits, as opposed to giving jobs to skilled American workers.

McCormick’s discrepancies when it comes to MAGA loyalty is what contributed to his loss to Dr. Mehmet Oz in 2022, who was Trump’s endorsed candidate. Now, McCormick is the likely front-runner on the Republican side to take on incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D) in 2024, with another Trump loyalist Doug Mastriano saying he’s not running. But if Trump emerges as the presidential frontrunner on the Republican side, it could be difficult for McCormick to reinvent himself to Trump supporters.