Doug Mastriano shredded by local paper for 'chilling' plans to overturn future elections
2 years, 3 months ago

Doug Mastriano shredded by local paper for 'chilling' plans to overturn future elections

Raw Story  

On Wednesday, the editorial board of The Philadelphia Inquirer released a scathing takedown of GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano, laying out his plans to interfere with elections in the name of former President Donald Trump's conspiracy theories. "Mastriano’s relentless efforts to thwart the results of the 2020 presidential election, spread Donald Trump’s election lies, and suppress votes in future elections amounts to a 10-alarm fire for anyone who believes in a functioning democracy," wrote the board. But, the board noted, Mastriano then moved on to trying to change election law so that future elections would be easier for Republicans to win or overturn. He "If elected governor, Mastriano boasted about how he plans to interfere with election outcomes if he doesn’t get the results he wants," the board noted, quoting Mastriano as saying, “I could decertify every machine in the state with the, you know, with the stroke of a pen."

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Anxious officials warn final results may lag in deadlocked presidential contest
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Anxious officials warn final results may lag in deadlocked presidential contest

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON — As an exceedingly bitter, tight and dark campaign for the presidency moves into its last moments, apprehensive election officials and experts warn Election Day is only the first step. The next step was for Congress to count each state’s certified slate of electors, which by law, it must do on the Jan. 6 following a presidential election. “With …

Incoming Pa. governor taps GOP ex-official for election post
1 year, 11 months ago

Incoming Pa. governor taps GOP ex-official for election post

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A former Philadelphia election official who has told of enduring death threats for defending the city’s 2020 vote-counting against former President Donald Trump’s lies will be nominated for the top election administration post in Pennsylvania by the incoming Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro. Protecting elections and voting rights was central to Shapiro’s campaign, as he emphasized his intention …

Scott Perry and Doug Mastriano were central plotters to 'keep Trump in power': J6 Committee
1 year, 11 months ago

Scott Perry and Doug Mastriano were central plotters to 'keep Trump in power': J6 Committee

Raw Story  

On Tuesday, NPR Pittsburgh reported on how the House January 6 Select Committee, set to officially dissolve today, zoomed in on two key Pennsylvania Republicans as central to the plot to overturn the results of the election: Rep. Scott Perry, and state Sen. Doug Mastriano. "The committee said midstate Rep. Scott Perry and State Sen. Doug Mastriano — who would …

County vote moves Pennsylvania closer to certifying election
2 years ago

County vote moves Pennsylvania closer to certifying election

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A suburban Philadelphia county elections board voted Tuesday to certify its November results, a development Pennsylvania officials had said was required before they can issue a statewide certification. Bucks County government spokesman Jim O’Malley said its Board of Elections wrapped up certification, although litigation over recount requests has not ended. “The recount petition litigation is ongoing, but …

Pennsylvania county deadlocks on certifying election results
2 years ago

Pennsylvania county deadlocks on certifying election results

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Officials in a northeastern Pennsylvania county where paper shortages caused Election Day ballot problems deadlocked Monday on whether to report official vote tallies to the state, effectively preventing their certification of the results. He said elections officials contacted 125 judges of elections from the county’s 187 precincts “and they reported nobody being turned away.” A judge extended …

Waiting For God At Doug Mastriano’s Election Night Watch Party
2 years, 1 month ago

Waiting For God At Doug Mastriano’s Election Night Watch Party

Huff Post  

Supporters pray as they attend Republican candidate for Governor of Pennsylvania Doug Mastriano's 2022 U.S. midterm election night party, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Nov. 8, 2022. Mike Segar via Reuters CAMP HILL, Pa. — “I just feel like he has been chosen for this, I really do,” said Kristin Bailey, a healthcare worker from York, as she waited in line outside …

GOP Election Deniers Really Didn't Like Biden's Speech Calling Out GOP Election Deniers
2 years, 3 months ago

GOP Election Deniers Really Didn't Like Biden's Speech Calling Out GOP Election Deniers

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING President Joe Biden used a prime-time speech Thursday to warn Americans that democracy is “under assault” from “MAGA Republicans” who sought to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 election and have pledged to exert more partisan power over future contests. Arizona state Rep. Mark Finchem, one of several election deniers who won a GOP secretary of …

More than half of GOP governor nominees have questioned or denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election
2 years, 4 months ago

More than half of GOP governor nominees have questioned or denied the legitimacy of the 2020 election

CNN  

Washington CNN — The Republican nominee in at least 22 of this year’s 36 gubernatorial races is someone who has rejected, declined to affirm, raised doubts about, or tried to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. Arizona: Kari Lake Republican gubernatorial candidate for Arizona Kari Lake speaks to supporters during a campaign event at the Whiskey Roads Restaurant …

2020 results denier to oversee voting in rural Nevada county
2 years, 4 months ago

2020 results denier to oversee voting in rural Nevada county

Associated Press  

RENO, Nev. — County commissioners in rural Nevada appointed a new top election official who has denied that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election and promises to implement plans to count every ballot by hand, in place of electronic vote tabulating machines. “I believe Donald Trump won the 2020 election,” Kampf said at an April Republican primary debate during …

Doug Mastriano Is Keeping A Big Secret From Pennsylvania Voters
2 years, 4 months ago

Doug Mastriano Is Keeping A Big Secret From Pennsylvania Voters

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Doug Mastriano has a secret. Because Pennsylvania is among the states in which the governor appoints the secretary of state, the 2022 gubernatorial race is essentially a “Buy one, get one” deal for Republican election deniers: A Mastriano victory all but ensures that the next secretary of the commonwealth will be someone who shares his anti-democratic zeal …

Mastriano brings election denier onto Pa. governor campaign
2 years, 6 months ago

Mastriano brings election denier onto Pa. governor campaign

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor who has pushed Donald Trump’s election lies, said Monday that he had appointed Trump’s former campaign lawyer as a senior legal adviser to his own campaign. Ellis, who also promoted Trump’s election lies, was with Mastriano the night he won his gubernatorial primary and, speaking on her podcast last month, …

How Pa. GOP gov pick could turn election lies into action
2 years, 7 months ago

How Pa. GOP gov pick could turn election lies into action

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Doug Mastriano is not the only candidate who won a Republican primary on Tuesday after embracing Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen. “We have literally opened the door to a conspiracy theorist who was at the insurrection.” As the reality of Mastriano’s victory settled in on Wednesday, there were early signs that GOP officials …

Takeaways: Election denier wins, bad behavior dooms Cawthorn
2 years, 7 months ago

Takeaways: Election denier wins, bad behavior dooms Cawthorn

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s influence was enough to elevate his Senate candidate to victory in North Carolina on Tuesday, while his pick in Pennsylvania remained in a tough fight in that state’s Senate primary. Takeaways from Tuesday’s primaries in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Kentucky, Idaho and Oregon: TRUMP’S WINNING STREAK CONTINUES The former president entered the primary season on …

Suddenly Pennsylvania Republicans Are OK With Counting Mail-In Ballots
2 years, 7 months ago

Suddenly Pennsylvania Republicans Are OK With Counting Mail-In Ballots

Huff Post  

Former hedge fund titan David McCormick, left, and celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz remain locked in a race that's too close to call. But in this case, the mail-in ballots still being counted will prove to be decisive for either Mehmet Oz, the Donald Trump-backed TV doctor, or David McCormick, the former hedge fund executive. Pennsylvania Republicans had a much different …

Tight Pennsylvania GOP Senate race; Mastriano wins gov nod
2 years, 7 months ago

Tight Pennsylvania GOP Senate race; Mastriano wins gov nod

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Donald Trump’s preferred candidate in Pennsylvania’s Senate Republican primary was essentially tied with a more traditional rival, while his pick for governor notched a commanding victory Tuesday as the former president worked to expand his hold on the GOP. In the town of Hamburg, Pennsylvania, Stacy Steinly, a 51-year-old school bus assistant, said she chose Mastriano because …

Trump-backed Mastriano wins GOP Pennsylvania governor nod
2 years, 7 months ago

Trump-backed Mastriano wins GOP Pennsylvania governor nod

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Doug Mastriano won the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania governor on Tuesday, beating eight other candidates and a party establishment that had tried to head off his nomination over fears that he is too extreme to win the general election in the presidential battleground. Mastriano, a retired U.S. Army colonel and state senator since 2019 who was endorsed …

A far-right election denier wins GOP governor primary in swing state of Pennsylvania
2 years, 7 months ago

A far-right election denier wins GOP governor primary in swing state of Pennsylvania

NPR  

A far-right election denier wins GOP governor primary in swing state of Pennsylvania Enlarge this image toggle caption Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano has emerged as the winner from a crowded Republican primary for governor, according to a race call from The Associated Press. Sponsor Message Republican establishment panic The lead that …

Pa. governor hopeful drops out, backs rival as primary nears
2 years, 7 months ago

Pa. governor hopeful drops out, backs rival as primary nears

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor said Thursday that he was ending his campaign and endorsing rival Lou Barletta, a move that comes as GOP leaders warn that leading candidate Doug Mastriano is too far right to win in a general election. Jake Corman, Pennsylvania’s ranking state senator, announced his endorsement of Barletta at a news conference …

Mastriano all but declares in race for Pennsylvania governor
3 years ago

Mastriano all but declares in race for Pennsylvania governor

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Republican state senator who has helped spread conspiracy theories about last year’s presidential election and led opposition to pandemic-related shutdowns, vaccine mandates and masking orders is all but officially declaring that he will run for governor. Mastriano, 57, has become a one-man force in conservative politics in Pennsylvania, leading anti-mask protests last year, pushing to overturn …

How a Pennsylvania state senator helped fuel Trump’s election lies
3 years, 2 months ago

How a Pennsylvania state senator helped fuel Trump’s election lies

CNN  

CNN — Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano went out of his way to help advance former President Donald Trump’s election lies: He spearheaded a “hearing” at a hotel in Gettysburg a few weeks after the 2020 election, where Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani made false claims about election fraud. And he was briefly in charge of the Pennsylvania state …

Trump-fueled election ‘audit’ sparks Senate GOP turmoil
3 years, 4 months ago

Trump-fueled election ‘audit’ sparks Senate GOP turmoil

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The top Republican in Pennsylvania’s Senate said Friday that he is putting a different senator in charge of an “election integrity” undertaking and removed a senator who had made waves by aiming to carry out an Arizona-style “forensic investigation” of Pennsylvania’s 2020 presidential election. Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman said he had had “many frustrations” with …

Trump ally launches election audit plan in Pennsylvania
3 years, 5 months ago

Trump ally launches election audit plan in Pennsylvania

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania state lawmaker and ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump is launching a “forensic investigation” of the state’s 2020 presidential election, demanding cooperation from counties and mimicking a widely criticized partisan effort in Arizona. The state’s attorney general, Democrat Josh Shapiro, called it a “partisan fishing expedition.” Trump has persistently claimed the 2020 election was …

Donald Trump and Joe Biden faced off in an election that was very 2020 – but what happens now?
3 years, 11 months ago

Donald Trump and Joe Biden faced off in an election that was very 2020 – but what happens now?

The Independent  

The 2020 US presidential election was so, well, 2020. She has toggled between her technical day job – Mr Trump’s government-paid top spokesperson – and the official spokesperson of his campaign – even though it has one: former White House principal press secretary Hogan Gidley. Mr Brann wrote that the Trump team presented little more than “strained legal arguments without …

Trump Is Now Calling Pennsylvania’s GOP House Speaker to Explore Ways to Overturn the State’s Vote
54 years, 11 months ago

Trump Is Now Calling Pennsylvania’s GOP House Speaker to Explore Ways to Overturn the State’s Vote

Slate  

President Donald Trump’s shambolic legal effort to overturn his 7 million vote, 4.5 point, 74 electoral vote loss to President-elect Joe Biden has been nothing short of a national embarrassment. “The president said, ‘I’m hearing about all these issues in Philadelphia, and these issues with your law,’ ” a Cutler spokesman said, describing the House speaker’s two conversations with Trump …

Pennsylvania certifies election results, sealing state victory for Biden
4 years ago

Pennsylvania certifies election results, sealing state victory for Biden

The Independent  

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Pennsylvania Judge Dismisses Trump’s Case for Vote Certification
4 years, 1 month ago

Pennsylvania Judge Dismisses Trump’s Case for Vote Certification

The Quint  

Biden has won 306 Electoral College votes, surpassing the 270 votes needed to clinch the presidency, whereas Trump has won 232 Electoral College votes. Pennsylvania is scheduled to certify its election results on Monday, 23 November, and it has been projected that it will grant its 20 Electoral College votes to Biden, reported IANS. Al Jazeera reported a statement by …

US election results: Pennsylvania judge rejects Trump's bid to stop vote certification in state
4 years, 1 month ago

US election results: Pennsylvania judge rejects Trump's bid to stop vote certification in state

Firstpost  

Pennsylvania officials can certify election results that currently show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes, the judge ruled Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania officials can certify election results that currently show Democrat Joe Biden winning the state by more than 80,000 votes, a federal judge ruled, dealing President Donald Trump’’s campaign another blow in its effort to invalidate …

Biden gains ground in Pennsylvania as Trump tries to stop the ballot count
4 years, 1 month ago

Biden gains ground in Pennsylvania as Trump tries to stop the ballot count

LA Times  

Protesters march Wednesday at City Hall in Philadelphia and shout “Black Lives Matter” as President Trump goes to court to try to block Pennsylvania’s counting of mail ballots. President Trump sought Wednesday to block Pennsylvania from counting more than 1 million ballots cast by mail in Tuesday’s election as the tabulation narrowed his lead over Democratic challenger Joe Biden. pic.twitter.com/a3drnSTV08 …

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