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Doug Mastriano is leading the PA primary for governor, and GOP insiders are trying to stop him
The ominous mailer has an image of Doug Mastriano on one side. The other has a clipping from a news article reporting that the state senator wanted the federal government to suspend privacy laws so local health departments could “release names and locations” of COVID-19 patients.
“We can’t trust Doug Mastriano,” warns the mailer, which was paid for by a well-funded conservative political group and sent to Republican primary voters last week.
The attack was the clearest sign yet that most Pennsylvania Republican insiders see Mr. Mastriano, one of the state’s leading election deniers, as the front-runner for the party’s nomination for governor — and are increasingly worried about it.
Less than three weeks before the May 17 primary election, polls and interviews with campaign advisers and other GOP insiders suggest the nine-candidate race remains a tossup. The share of voters who say they are undecided — as high as 40%, according to an April Franklin & Marshall College survey — is unusually high this late in the campaign. That might be partly because it’s the biggest GOP gubernatorial primary field since 1978, when Dick Thornburgh won with just 33% of the vote.
“We can’t trust Doug Mastriano,” warns the mailer, which was paid for by a well-funded conservative political group and sent to Republican primary voters last week.
The attack was the clearest sign yet that most Pennsylvania Republican insiders see Mr. Mastriano, one of the state’s leading election deniers, as the front-runner for the party’s nomination for governor — and are increasingly worried about it.
Less than three weeks before the May 17 primary election, polls and interviews with campaign advisers and other GOP insiders suggest the nine-candidate race remains a tossup. The share of voters who say they are undecided — as high as 40%, according to an April Franklin & Marshall College survey — is unusually high this late in the campaign. That might be partly because it’s the biggest GOP gubernatorial primary field since 1978, when Dick Thornburgh won with just 33% of the vote.
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This article is a discussion of the major GOP candidates including Mastriano, McSwain, White, and Barletta.
As most of us Pennsylvanians know, Mastriano is particularly loathsome for the part he tried to play in Chump's "Big Lie" last year.
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These guys are just a clown car. But I hate what Mastriano tried to do last year, he was part of Chump's coup.
So he's already running against the higher-polling Repukes. That's quite an advantage for him.
