Senate candidate Dave McCormick announced his support of a bill forcing the sale of TikTok by its Chinese parent company. Incumbent Senator Bob Casey has not revealed his position while scores of parents are attempting to sue TikTok for harming children.

In the wake of the House of Representatives’ vote to force Chinese company ByteDance, which has deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party, to sell social media giant TikTok, Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick announced his support of the bill, joining nearly all of the Keystone state’s lower chamber reps.

Only Representatives Brendan Boyle (D-2), Scott Perry (R-10), and Summer Lee (D-12) voted against the bill. In a statement defending his vote, Boyle said there was not “a compelling enough case for the government to ban a social media app.”

McCormick said while he supports the legislation, more can be done to stop the Chinese Communist Party and entities it controls from “siphoning Americans’ data across U.S.-based platforms.” McCormick criticized incumbent Senator Bob Casey, a Democrat, for having a TikTok account. Casey recently said he has not read the bill and will “make a decision through the lens of our national security.”

Both Senator Casey and his fellow Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) have TikTok accounts, though there has been little activity on either account since the debate over ByteDance’s ownership and its close ties to the CCP. Despite having a TikTok account, Fetterman voiced his support for the House bill and called on the Senate to take it up. Fetterman previously criticized the app for fostering “warped” perceptions of the Israel-Hamas war.

Before the bill came up for a vote in the House, parents concerned over the app’s influence over their children and negative impact on their mental health were looking to sue TikTok, but the app’s terms and conditions require arbitration in California before any court proceedings can take place. Psychotherapist Thomas Kersting told Fox Business that TikTok is driving a wedge between parents and their children. Kersting compared the Chinese-owned platform to cigarettes, saying “TikTok is to the brain, what cigarettes are to the lungs.”

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is also suing TikTok for “exposing young children to graphic materials such as sexual content, self-harm, illegal drug use, and worse.” Arkansas and Utah are following suit.

At least 39 states have implemented some version of a restriction on TikTok. Montana outright banned the app, but it is being argued in court. In December 2022, the Pennsylvania Treasurer’s office announced it banned TikTok access on all computers and devices owned and issued by them.

A report on the data privacy concerns of TikTok makes the claim that “every day that TikTok is allowed to operate in the United States is another day that China can collect information about U.S. citizens and sharpen its ability to exploit Americans—especially the young. The more that TikTok becomes embedded in the United States, the harder it will be to uproot.”