Posted on 05/14/2022 6:13:35 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Former President Donald Trump has endorsed Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary for governor, putting a last-minute seal of approval on the far-right front-runner who has embraced his false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
"There is no one in Pennsylvania who has done more, or fought harder, for Election Integrity than State Senator Doug Mastriano," Trump said in a statement Saturday.
Trump’s backing comes just days before a Tuesday primary where Mastriano has solidified himself as the leading candidate. Democrat Josh Shapiro, the state’s attorney general who is unopposed in his party’s primary for governor, has aired a TV ad seemingly designed to fortify Mastriano, whom even many Republicans believe would be their weakest candidate in a general election because of his extreme positions.
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The gaslight media reads minds and lies in sentence #1. As expected.
He’s been fighting the fraud a long time. Isn’t he former military?
He stopped talking about it after his critics began pointing out that the 2020 election debacle in Pennsylvania was only possible because of the stupid mail-in voting process that MASTRIANO HIMSELF helped pass into law in 2019.
The rationale behind Trump’s endorsement in this race is obvious (he will always endorse someone who is going to win), but Mastriano is not going to win in November. In fact, I predict that he would lose this race even if every other Republican candidate in the U.S. wins.
Trump is endorsing the winner. It’s a bit late to do anything other than jump on Mastriano’s band wagon. I would like to see Trump be more aggressive about supporting challengers to all the RINOs who support Jake the Snake as President Pro Tempore of the PA Senate.
Mastriano has been pretty much in the lead since March. Ahead Double digits last poll I saw
Election is Tuesday.
Not sure what last minute endorsement is about
According to PA people on twitter, Mastriano signs are everywhere so this is a safe bet
In this case, I’m sure Trump held out until the last minute because he couldn’t imagine why PA Republicans would pick Mastriano. He’s going to get his ass kicked in November. Trump probably just endorsed the guy because he needs his supporters behind him in 2024.
Yes, Trump waited until the polls showed a clear leader to endorse. Trump only cares about his win/loss record and not the record of those he endorses.
That is why so many of his endorsements turn on him and his staff picks have been horrible.
Yes, because Trump cares more about his own win/loss record on endorsements than he does about endorsing solid constitutionalists.
Didn't need to read past that to know this is leftist propaganda.
As Trump himself just stated:
Anybody that sees the great new documentary,“2000 Mules,” who doesn’t believe the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged and Stolen, is either a fool, very corrupt, or stupid. Republican “leadership” should act now and do something. Our Country is going to hell!
Fool, very corrupt or stupid...yep. Describes the msm media and Republican "leadership" perfectly.
What more could he, as one man in the legislature, have done?
The RINOs would not hold a special session to investigate the fraud.
Mastriano has been pretty much in the lead since March. Ahead Double digits last poll I saw
Election is Tuesday.
Not sure what last minute endorsement is about
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could be that trump had to finesse a work aroumd on mcswain since trump had appointed him as us attorney in 2018?
It’s always been a bit amusing during primary season to see the endorsement game being played - but in this particular primary season, endorsement fever is becoming hyperbolic.
I call it a “game”, because it is.
Political leaders who pick winners build up their “kingmaker” status - the idea being that if the candidate they endorsed wins, they can claim it was their endorsement that caused the win.
But what if the endorsement had nothing to do with the win - and the political leader is just good at guessing who will win? It doesn’t matter - it’s the appearance of being “kingmaker” that is important.
I love President Trump and want him to be seen as a kingmaker - so I’ll cheer him on as he racks up a near perfect score of endorsing winners.
But for us high-information voters, endorsements really shouldn’t enter into our decision of who to vote for - we think for ourselves.
That’s why it’s so funny watching FReepers hyperventilating over Trump’s endorsement of Oz - and how if you vote for anyone else you are betraying MAGA - even though Oz isn’t remotely MAGA.
I was in Pennsylvania traveling around the state in October of 2020, one month before the Trump/Biden election.
ALL I saw were Trump signs, proudly displayed everywhere, all over the state - we had to pull over in one town to wait for a very large Trump supporter parade to go by (my nephew was driving the lead vehicle, a big rig tow truck).
You will never convince me that Trump lost Pennsylvania.
But he did, via voter fraud.
Partisan Media Shill and Stooge Henry J. Gomez: Democrat Josh Shapiro, the state’s attorney general who is unopposed in his party’s primary for governor, has aired a TV ad seemingly designed to fortify Mastriano, whom even many Republicans believe would be their weakest candidate in a general election because of his extreme positions.
This is annoying to me since Mastriano voted for MAIL-IN VOTING. Mastriano is naive & will Make deals with democrats if he even gets elected. Can’t believe Trump is endorsing these candidates.
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