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Republican · U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania · Pennsylvania · Spectrum score +50
Senate ·
Dave McCormick is U.S. Senator, Pennsylvania in Pennsylvania. Political positions and ideology score +50 (Right). McCormick is the Bridgewater senator.
- College
- West Point, B.S. 1987 · Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Ph.D. 1996
- Spouse
- Dina Powell McCormick (m. 2019). Previously Amy Richardson (div.)
- Children
- Four; two stepdaughters
- Résumé
- U.S. Senator · Pennsylvania · 2025–
- Chief executive · Bridgewater Associates · 2020–2022
- Under Secretary · Treasury (international) · 2007–2009
- Net worth
- $120M
- Salary
- $174,000
- Before office
- $100M
- 2026 raised
- $4.0M
- Years in office
- 1
Member of Congress · frozen since 2009
Where Dave stands on the spectrum
Dave McCormick scores +50 on Spectrum’s left–right line (right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.
Composite +50 · Right · economic +51 · social +46 · authoritarian +27
Confidence 86. How we calculate scores →
Background & record
McCormick is the Bridgewater senator. The file is a hedge-fund fortune, a 2022 loss, a 2024 win, and a caucus that will ask him to vote against the industry that minted him. He can afford the heresy. Watch whether he commits it.
Finances
Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.
Net worth
$120M
+20% since taking office
Hedge-fund estimate, 2025
Bridgewater. He did not need Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania needed a check.
Money in · 2026 cycle
- Raised
- $4.0M
- Cash on hand
- $10.0M
Top industries
- Finance
- Self-funding
- Private equity
Stock holdings
Private companies / family office
Hedge-fund carry. The Senate office now votes on the industry that minted him.
Bridgewater leftover, 2025 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit
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Bridgewater / hedge-fund interests
Trust
$50.0M–$100M
VTI
Diversified funds
Trust
$10.0M–$25.0M
Sum of ranges $60.0M–$125M · midpoint $92.5M
X sentiment
Last 7 days
Odds
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Live wire
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Conflicts
- Hedge-fund carry vs a populist-Republican Senate.
- West Point-and-McKinsey résumé sold as Pennsylvania rust belt.
Issue detail
−100 left pole · +100 right pole
- Economic
- +51
- Social
- +46
- Authoritarian
- +27
- Confidence
- 86
- Taxes & spending+62
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
- Health care+42
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
- Climate & energy+48
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
- Business regulation+52
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
- Labor & wages+50
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
- Immigration+46
Tighter borders, more deportations
- Abortion+48
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
- Guns+56
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
- Crime & policing+50
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
- Schools & speech+46
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
- Defense & alliances+68
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
- Civil liberties+30
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality
No roll-call first dimension on file — issues only.
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Updated August 2026.