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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.
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I should give him some credit, though. He exceeded my expectations. I predicted months ago that he’d be lucky to get 40% of the vote.
McCormick was a much better choice than Oz. McCormick’s wife was a senior adviser to Trump. Unfortunately, Trump chose the more well known but much weaker candidate, Oz.
No. The shadow of mail in ballots and ballot harvesting is the shadow. Weak and feckless GOPE dopes allowed the steal to happen again.
Pennsylvania voted for a brain damaged senator only because he was a democrat. New york city voted for AOC only because she is a democrat. Massachusetts votes for Bernie Sanders only because he’s a democrat. We have a demented pedophile as president only because he’s a democrat. You can’t fix stupid.
Nothing changed in PA re: fraud in 2020. The result? The Zombie got nearly a million mail in votes to 200K for Dr. Odd. The difference was more than enough to win.
Penn. and the Dems seem to have cheating down to a science. No way anyone votes for fetterman(the man)... doesn’t anybody remember how biden “won” the Dem nomination in 2020? Wasn’t the ridiculous ballot counting and delays in Iowa just a test run for the technique of meddling with counting the ballots. No one really knows where any of the votes came from. Supposedly buttigieg won...sanders 2nd. How did Biden lose first 3 primaries , then miraculously win almost all of them all after?...Sanders challenged the results of Iowa with no reported resolution to the challenge.....hmmmmmm..very fishy...just sayin’....
Yes, but that is not the elephant in the room.
The two states (Texas and Florida) that were the most serious about securing their elections saw tremendous growth in the margin of victory for republicans.
Cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and others have always been hotbeds of fraud. Now it has moved into Phoenix and Atlanta.
Desantis pushed it out of Miami. Abbot made it a lot harder to pull off in Dallas and Houston.
These Monday morning quarterbacks still don't understand Mastriano, and why he had so much grassroots support to carry the nomination by himself, with Trump coming in at the end (after quietly backing Jake Corman) and jumping in front of his parade just a week before the primary to try and claim credit. Mastriano's grassroots support had NOTHING to to with Trump and everything to do with fighting Wolf, Shapiro, and Levine during the dark days of 2020 and 2021.
Doug' slogan "Walk as Free People" truly resonated in central PA, but it wasn't enough to overcome the Democrat cheating machine, with over a MILLION mail-in ballots cast. Seriously?
Flashback:
Top Pennsylvania Republican senator replaces Mastriano as leader of 'election integrity' plan
Right, the National Republican Party and the Republican Governors Association offered NO help to Mastriano whatsoever...he had to try and do it all himself, through his grassroots supporters and volunteers.
And the backstabbing...oh the backstabbing that went on within the State and County committees!
He was quietly backing Corman at first...
Trump encourages Jake Corman to remain in the governor’s race – and so he is
Trump was perfectly willing to throw Mastriano under the bus despite all that Doug had done for him with the November 2020 Gettysburg hearing and his attempts at auditing Pennsylvania's 2020 election (before Corman sacked him and fired his staff).
And even after endorsing Doug, Trump never gave him one penny for his campaign. not a single financial contribution. Doug had to rely mostly on small contributions on his Doug4Gov webpage.
Trump owns every bit of this disaster.
That rally was terrible. I watched it live via Livestream, and had several friends there who were appalled at trump making it all about himself and not Mastriano and Oz. Trump did tremendous damage there, just days before the election.
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Mastriano conducted a bus tour campaign and visited all 67 counties in Pennsylvania, with multiple events and stops each day for the past three months. He had no money for television ads though, whereas Shapiro had tens of millions.
Oz won the primary by a shunt hair.
Trump’s endorsement was nearly too late.
For Mastriano, Trump’s endorsement was too little ($) and too late.
Mastriano didn’t want to debate or talk to the establishment media and he didn’t talk much to the other media either. Then he didn’t have any money. It is hard to ask for money but you have to go out there and do it. He couldn’t do it. Trump isn’t the reason Mastriano lost.
1. His refusal to speak to the mainstream media. I know the MSM is the enemy. But they have an audience, and any coverage of a campaign amounts to free advertising. Who came up with this brilliant idea for a major political campaign?
2. That "Desert Storm Veteran" hat. The first time I saw his website photo with that stupid hat on several months ago, I knew this guy was toast. Desert Storm was more than 30 years ago, dude ... and hardly anyone even remembers it. And very few voters are impressed with that anymore. Importantly, he doesn't need to appeal to veterans, who are going to vote for him overwhelmingly anyway. This speaks to a bigger issue in his campaign that I'll address below in Item #3.
3. Turning his political campaign into a religious crusade. I have the utmost respect for dedicated Christians ... but, my heavens -- most American voters in large urban areas are completely turned off by that overt religiosity in politics. They find it weird at best and off-putting in most cases. This goes to the bigger point I mentioned above: I never saw any aspect of Mastriano's campaign that was aimed at attracting a single voter who wasn't already a dedicated supporter.
I expect we’re never going to hear from him again in the world of politics.
He got just 5% less than Oz did.
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