No, it is not. And in 2022, when Dr Oz, who lived in New Jersey, ran against John Fetterman, that counted for a lot. Oz was, in fact, pilloried as an "elitist" for his big house in Jersey and his doomed search for inexpensive crudités in a Pennsylvania supermarket whose name he got wrong.
This time, McCormick's undoubted elitism was cool, I guess.