Pennsylvania Unlikely To Elect a “Big Lie” Trump Supporter
As a Pennsylvanian, you don’t have to tell me that the middle part of the state is bright red, politically. Yet the Keystone State is home to Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and is dotted with wonderful small colleges and universities in its interior: Bucknell University, Lafayette College, Penn State University, Lehigh University, Dickinson College, Franklin & Marshall College, and Gettysburg College.
This bodes very poorly for the victor in the Republican gubernatorial primary, Doug Mastriano, who is a garden-variety Trump supporter, along with all the hate and ignorance that this implies.
From PBS affiliate WHYY:
A Pennsylvania state senator who was in regular communication with Donald Trump as the then-president sought to reverse his 2020 election loss, and was outside the U.S. Capitol the afternoon of the Jan. 6 rioting, was subpoenaed Tuesday by the congressional committee looking into the insurrection.
Sen. Doug Mastriano, a former Army officer currently seeking the Republican nomination for governor, was asked by the Jan. 6 select committee to hand over documents and information about efforts to name a slate of alternate Electoral College electors for Trump.
The committee cited a Nov. 28, 2020, tweet by Mastriano that said he was pushing to have the Pennsylvania Legislature appoint electors.
Days after President Joe Biden’s victory was certified in Pennsylvania, Mastriano sponsored a resolution in the Legislature to undo the certification, declare the election in dispute and effectively overturn state law by empowering the Republican-controlled Legislature to pick electors. The resolution did not gather any cosponsors and died in committee without action on Nov. 30.
