Republican David McCormick addresses supporters at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh after announcing he will enter Pennsylvania's U.S. Senate race and make his second bid for the office, this time to take on Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Pennsylvania Republican Senate candidate David McCormick invested millions of dollars in companies that outsourced thousands of jobs, including jobs in his (debatable) home state.

According to candidate filing reports, McCormick invested between $4.5 million and $92 million in companies that outsourced American jobs, including General Electric, Hewlett Packard and Wells Fargo. Petitions filed with the Department of Labor suggest that at least 15,000 American jobs — over 2,600 of which were in Pennsylvania — were affected by the outsourcing actions of companies that McCormick invested in.

In 2017, 460 employees from a Wells Fargo call center in Bethlehem, Pa. petitioned the U.S. Department of Labor requesting an investigation into their jobs being sent overseas to the Philippines. Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan defended outsourcing during a Congressional testimony in 2017, and the company insisted that the job cuts were the result of a reduction in call volume, a point which was disputed by workers.

Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey (D), who McCormick is trying to unseat next November, opposed the outsourcing, demanded that Wells Fargo return the jobs to America and proposed legislation to protect American call center jobs.

During his decades-long business career, McCormick also invested in Chinese electric vehicle companies despite blaming the struggles of auto workers on the Biden administration’s policies. While the CEO of FreeMarkets, a global software company, McCormick taught other companies how to outsource American jobs.

McCormick is the GOP frontrunner for Casey’s seat and will likely face him in the 2024 general election next November.