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Posted on 09/26/2022 9:48:54 PM PDT by conservative98
HARRISBURG, Pa. — In the same spot where he spoke to thousands of people at a raucous State Capitol rally demanding an end to pandemic restrictions in April 2020, Doug Mastriano appeared on Saturday before a crowd of just a few dozen — about half of whom were volunteers for his ragtag campaign for governor of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Mastriano, an insurgent state senator who in the spring cruised to the Republican nomination, is learning this fall that while it is one thing to win a crowded G.O.P. primary on the back of online fame and Donald J. Trump’s endorsement, it is quite another to prevail in a general election in a battleground state of nearly 13 million people.
He is being heavily outspent by his Democratic rival, has had no television ads on the air since May, has chosen not to interact with the state’s news media in ways that would push his agenda, and trails by double digits in reputable public polling and most private surveys.
There’s no sign of cavalry coming to his aid, either: The Republican Governors Association, which is helping the party’s nominees in Arizona, Michigan and six other states, has no current plans to assist Mr. Mastriano, according to people with knowledge of its deliberations.
The Pennsylvania governor’s race is perhaps the most consequential in the country. Mr. Mastriano, a retired Army colonel who chartered buses to the Jan. 6, 2021, rally that led to the attack on the Capitol, has vowed to ban abortion without exceptions and pledged to enact sweeping new voting restrictions. He would be likely to accomplish those measures given the Republican advantage in the state legislature.
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But the stakes aren’t apparent based on Mr. Mastriano’s limited resources. There is little indication that he has built a campaign infrastructure beyond the Facebook videos that propelled him to stardom in right-wing circles and to the vanguard of Christian nationalist politics.
“I can’t even assess things because I don’t see a campaign,” said Matt Brouillette, the president of Commonwealth Partners Chamber of Entrepreneurs, an advocacy group that is a major player in Pennsylvania Republican politics. “I’ve not seen anything that is even a semblance of a campaign.”
Mr. Brouillette, who backed one of Mr. Mastriano’s rivals in the G.O.P. primary, added: “Now, maybe he knows something we don’t on how you can win in the fifth-largest state without doing TV or mail. But I guess we’re going to have to wait until Nov. 8 to see whether you can pull something like that off.”
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Mr. Brouillette’s organization is the only one to air any television ads attacking Josh Shapiro, the state attorney general who won the Democratic primary for governor uncontested even as he spent $400,000 to help lift Mr. Mastriano to victory in the Republican primary.
But while Commonwealth Partners’s political action committee has paid for 811 television ads urging Pennsylvanians to “vote Republican” against Mr. Shapiro, the Democratic nominee’s campaign has broadcast more than 23,000 ads promoting himself and attacking Mr. Mastriano since the May primary, according to AdImpact, a media-tracking firm.
Ain’t nobody giving money to the Republicans. The far left “mainstream media” will monkey dox your ass and Fourteenth Row Joe will be sending his goons out to run your ass over.
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Strange - the Trafalgar Poll on this same site shows Mastriano rapidly gaining on Shapiro all of two points behind.
This author seems obsessed with Mastriano, not the news.
Should be a grassroots revolution.
If Republicans don’t turn out without persuasion, there’s no need to bother anymore.
NYT bilge. The author can go FOAD.
It’s a miracle. He is “ahead”. And can’t be stopped.
If Mastriano ends up winning, maybe us freepers can come up with ways to rub it in the N.Y. Times face. That would be lovely.
What a shock .
Just the News ^ | September 17, 2022 - 6:38pm | JTN staff
New polling shows Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano pulling close to Democratic rival Josh Shapiro as the contentious governor’s race nears its home stretch. Polling from the Trafalgar Group shows Mastriano within two points of Shapiro, at 45.7% to 47.7%, respectively. That indicates the race may be significantly closer than data from earlier weeks demonstrated.
Nobody else is going to give them money.
Shapiro spent big bucks propping up Mastriano ensuring he'd be his opponent because he'd be the easiest to beat.
It would suck if Shapiro is proven right.
NYSlime Psych OPS Dnc hit piece from Manhattan NYS Non practicing Jew .
Who would think .
Mastriano is simply an awful candidate for this kind of race. He represents one of the most conservative districts in the state, but he’s the completely wrong candidate for a statewide race. Among voter registrations, Democrats outnumber Republicans by about 500,000 voters in PA.
This is psyops don’t believe this. It is a lie from the frightened left.
The rodents are on the wrong side of every issue.
Sputtering campaign? Sounds like he’s on track for the most votes in PA history.
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