Posted on 11/09/2022 5:29:36 PM PST by GrootheWanderer
Last May, when Trump endorsed Oz for the Republican Senate nomination over David McCormick, many of the state's loyal conservatives balked. Dave Ball, the Washington County GOP chairman who flipped his county from blue to red in voter registration, said at the time, “What the hell was he thinking?”
When Mastriano surged comfortably ahead in the polls for the GOP gubernatorial nomination in the weeks before the May primary, I reported extensively on the Republicans' fears that Mastriano would drag the party down, including its Senate nominee; within days of that story, Trump endorsed Mastriano.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
It amazes me how folks focus on the 16, and forget about
the over 200.
Very telling...
The failure was the PA Legislature not addressing the wide spread mail-in ballot infrastructure that they enabled in 2020... and we know is susceptible to fraud.
Seriously... does anyone think there were more Biden voters in Philly and Pittsburgh during 2020... than Obama voters in the same places in 2008.
This is on the handwringers and pearl clutchers.
I agree, Oz was a bad choice. Now when are we going to see some articles written about the successes?
The fact is the GOP gave Pennsylvania to the Democrats this cycle, leaving aside all other issues.
Mastriano endorsement wasn’t weeks before it was 3 days before and he already had a comfortable lead.
Don’t kid yourself… the fraud machine rules PA!
Trump basically stayed neutral in the primary for gov.
I can’t imagine why Salena Zito of all people would think McCormick had a chance in hell of winning a statewide election in Pennsylvania.
I think we held on to the State Legislature.
Consider the source, people. Both sources, the author of the article and their promoter OP:
The Salena Zito controversy, explained
A chronicler of heartland Trump voters stands accused of shoddy journalism.
By Dylan Matthewsdylan@vox.com Sep 5, 2018, 1:20pm EDT https://www.vox.com/2018/9/5/17791350/salena-zito-trump-voter-new-york-post-reporter-plagiarism-quotes
Another NPC posting.
No - this is all at the hands of McConnell.
Trump won last night.
I agree totally with you. Trump should have stayed out of Pennsylvania politics. He knows nothing about them. And his last appearance was in Latrobe, PA where he spent the entire rally promoting himself and showing polls of him beating Biden. Yesterday’s news, by the way, and irrelevant today. I’d say Pennsylvanians are tired of Trump. McCormick would have beaten Fetterman. He was the kind of moderate Republican who can win in Pennsylvania.
Instead, Trump butted in and screwed everything up by pushing a t.v. personality who is a personal friend. Pennsylvanians don’t like to be treated like stooges. So, the results of the election were, in part, repudiations of him foisting duds on us—a carpetbagger from New York and New Jersey and a lackluster candidate who actually claimed he was chosen by the Almighty to be governor and urged his supporters to pray and fast for 40 days.
Now we’re stuck with a Democratic governor and two Democrat senators. No effort will be made to clean up the corruption because the Republicans in the legislature are dumb.
I suspect Trump was behind longtime supporter Lou Barletta in that race, but he wouldn’t endorse him because Barletta wasn’t polling well enough to give any indication that he’d win.
I agree too. There was no way in hell that Dr. Oz could possibly beat a political opponent who can't even process human speech. I feel bad the guy had a stroke but the Democrats are obviously super-confident when they put forward a guy who just had a stroke and is incapable of processing human speech.
First, the Democrat/RINO Uniparty "won" the Presidency in 2020 with their senile Sleepy Joe puppet Manchurian Candidate.
Then in 2022, the Democrat/RINO Uniparty totally outdid itself when it won a U.S. Senate seat with a candidate incapable of processing human speech.
Thus, I predict that for 2024, Biden will decline to run, Kamala will also decline to run, and so the Democrat/RINO Uniparty will instead run a Democratic 4.5 billion-year-old igneous rock by the name of Fred. And Democrat Fred will win over 100 Million votes (!), thus making him, by far, the most popular President in history, even more popular than the senile Sleepy Joe puppet Manchurian Candidate. The Democrat/RINO Uniparty will unanimously cheer, very proud of the fact that Democrat Fred will be The First Igneous Rock Ever Elected U.S. President, thus further strengthening the Democrat/RINO Uniparty's DEI crusade. (DEI stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.)
Don’t kid yourself… the fraud machine rules PA!
Absolutely.
To believe otherwise you have to believe that the majority of PA voters want a brain dead (with a dark past even before the stroke) senator for the next six years.
The people I knew in PA were not stupid.
This had nothing to do with Trump.
He chose Mastriano aide the other too candidate Lou Bartletta was an even lousier candidate then Mastriano
As for the senate Barnette is a wacko and would have spent the entire campaign defining the names she called Obama
Dave McCormick was a very good candidate but Trump chose Oz side cause he’s friends with Trump and Oz stood by him in 2016 and 2020.
The GOP in PA is as US Chamber of Commerce and establishment as it gets and is very backwards thinking
According to Zito, the coup de grace was Trump’s GOTV effort that may have energized Democrat voters more than it did Republicans:
But among those who said inflation was the most pressing issue, more than three-quarters cast ballots for Oz. They made up more than a quarter of the electorate.]
[I suspect Trump was behind longtime supporter Lou Barletta in that race, but he wouldn’t endorse him because Barletta wasn’t polling well enough to give any indication that he’d win.]
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