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Pennsylvania state senator sues critics of his book about WWI hero Sgt. York
3 months ago

Pennsylvania state senator sues critics of his book about WWI hero Sgt. York

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Pennsylvania state senator and former GOP gubernatorial candidate whose support for Donald Trump drew him to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has sued a Canadian university and nearly two dozen academics over criticism of him and his research into World War I hero Sgt. Sen. Doug Mastriano’s defamation, racketeering and antitrust lawsuit, filed in western …

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Doubts about candidates tipped the scales in tightest races
2 years, 1 month ago

Doubts about candidates tipped the scales in tightest races

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Casting his vote this month in one of the most politically competitive states in the U.S., Seung Lee happily backed Georgia Republican Gov. Walker “doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” said Lee, a software tester in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur who ultimately backed Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock. While 7 in 10 Georgia voters for Kemp said …

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Doubts about candidates tipped the scales in the tightest midterm races
2 years, 1 month ago

Doubts about candidates tipped the scales in the tightest midterm races

LA Times  

A marquee in downtown Atlanta displays the word “vote” on election day. Walker “doesn’t know what he’s talking about,” said Lee, a software tester in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur who ultimately backed Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock. While 7 in 10 Georgia voters for Kemp said they enthusiastically backed him, only about half of fellow Republican Walker’s voters said …

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Democrat Josh Shapiro wins Pennsylvania governor’s race
2 years, 1 month ago

Democrat Josh Shapiro wins Pennsylvania governor’s race

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Democrat Josh Shapiro won the race for governor of Pennsylvania, securing the office for four years in a state where the future of abortion rights is on the line, along with management of the 2024 election in a battleground that is often decisive in choosing presidents. Shapiro, the state’s two-term elected attorney general, ran to the middle …

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Oz-Mastriano: An awkward pair atop Pennsylvania’s GOP ticket
2 years, 1 month ago

Oz-Mastriano: An awkward pair atop Pennsylvania’s GOP ticket

Associated Press  

MALVERN, Pa. — On a chilly Saturday morning in mid-October, state and national Republican Party leaders made their way to a hotel patio restaurant in the critically important Philadelphia suburbs to energize loyalists heading into next month’s election that features an awkwardly fitting pair at the top of the Pennsylvania ticket. He’s horrible.” Mastriano will lose Republican votes in Philadelphia’s …

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Campaign finance record broken in Pennsylvania governor race
2 years, 2 months ago

Campaign finance record broken in Pennsylvania governor race

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Democratic nominee for governor, has smashed the state’s 2-decade-old campaign spending record as he competes against Republican Doug Mastriano, who was on track to spend less than a tenth as much. The race between Shapiro and Mastriano may test how powerful that campaign spending is in one of the nation’s highest-profile races for governor. …

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Opinion: Democrats may be playing with fire this primary season
2 years, 5 months ago

Opinion: Democrats may be playing with fire this primary season

CNN  

Editor’s Note: David Axelrod, a senior CNN political commentator and host of “The Axe Files,” was a senior adviser to President Barack Obama and chief strategist for the 2008 and 2012 Obama presidential campaigns. McCaskill’s campaign unleashed a fusillade of negative ads against the most extreme, right-wing candidate, a state senator named Todd Akin, deliberately attacking him for the very …

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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, …

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Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis to serve as legal adviser to GOP's Doug Mastriano
2 years, 6 months ago

Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis to serve as legal adviser to GOP's Doug Mastriano

Raw Story  

One of Donald Trump's former campaign lawyers is joining the gubernatorial campaign team for Republican Doug Mastriano. Jenna Ellis, who worked on 2020 election challenges with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, will serve as a senior legal adviser to Mastriano, the GOP nominee for Pennsylvania governor and fellow election fraud conspiracy theorist. " "The talent, experience, and legal expertise Jenna brings …

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Column: A Pennsylvania Democrat pays to pick his GOP opponent? California’s got the playbook
2 years, 7 months ago

Column: A Pennsylvania Democrat pays to pick his GOP opponent? California’s got the playbook

LA Times  

Democrat Josh Shapiro spent handsomely on ads that boosted Republican Doug Mastriano, landing Shapiro his preferred opponent in November in the Pennsylvania governor’s race. The “This is Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano,” said the spot that blazed across Pennsylvania’s television airwaves, touting the candidate’s staunch opposition to abortion and mail-in balloting, and his whole-hog embrace of the stolen 2020 election …

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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 …

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Big GOP primary field for governor has party leaders worried
2 years, 9 months ago

Big GOP primary field for governor has party leaders worried

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A massive Republican primary field for governor in Pennsylvania is spurring growing discomfort among party leaders that a widely splintered primary vote could produce a winner who cannot beat Democrat Josh Shapiro in November’s general election. “We don’t want to allow a bad or poor candidate for the general election to potentially get through with a plurality …

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GOP fight over 2020 election audit brews in Pennsylvania
3 years, 6 months ago

GOP fight over 2020 election audit brews in Pennsylvania

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A key member of Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives is flatly rejecting talk of any sort of audit of the 2020 presidential election, a day after three fellow Republican state lawmakers toured the Arizona Senate GOP’s audit. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, who dismissed their trip to Arizona as an “effort to discredit the integrity of our elections” and …

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GOP state senator at Capitol during attack urged to resign
3 years, 11 months ago

GOP state senator at Capitol during attack urged to resign

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Republican state senator who was on the scene when a violent mob of fellow Donald Trump supporters commandeered the U.S. Capitol should resign, the top Democrat in the Pennsylvania Senate said Thursday. Mastriano, from Franklin County, has not returned multiple messages in the past two days, but said in a statement late Wednesday that he did …

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