If Mastriano has base support, why does he need to depend entirely on the “Republican establishment”? The base evidently doesn’t support him either if they are sitting on their hands and keeping their wallets closed with regard to his candidacy.
This is an entirely voluntarily action on the part of Trump’s organization and the MAGA base to give the donor class this much power.
His primary win makes more sense when you realize that Democrats paid for him to become the Republican nominee because they thought he would lose in the general.
They’ve pulled this trick with several Republican candidates this year and it should make Republican voters think about why Dems would do such a thing. Ultimately, we won’t really know until the returns are in though. I don’t like Oz but he seems like he is running a better race than Mastriano.