GIBSONIA, Pa.—Walking back from an early-voting site at North Park Ice Rink, Charles Schrankel of Ross Township, Pennsylvania, said he dropped off a ballot on which he voted straight Republican.
“I voted [the] straight Republican ticket, and I don’t always vote straight party,” Shrankel told The Daily Signal outside the polling station in Wexford, Pennsylvania.
But Schrankel, a former Army Ranger, said he was motivated to vote for GOP Senate candidate David McCormick, also a former Army Ranger, as well as to vote for former President Donald Trump.
“I think Trump and McCormick are a great team, and I think Trump makes a good garbage driver,” he said, joking about Trump’s recent campaign photo op riding in a garbage truck.
McCormick is the Republican challenger to incumbent Democrat Bob Casey Jr. in the Senate race.
North Park Ice Rink was…
