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Nine Republican leaders from across Pennsylvania on Wednesday endorsed Democrat Josh Shapiro for governor over their own party’s nominee, state Sen. Doug Mastriano, saying he is an extreme candidate who would undermine democracy.
Mastriano's relationship with establishment Republicans was already strained despite winning the May 17 primary against eight other candidates, a race that saw a groundswell of opposition from GOP leadership concerned that his far-right positions would drive moderate voters to Shapiro in November.
Mastriano has long been a supporter of unproven claims of voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election and as chair of the Senate Majority Policy Committee held a hearing in Gettysburg that November that saw Rudy Giuliani, poll watchers and a phone call from former President Donald Trump espousing claims of irregularities in the election.
Mastriano has also championed legislation to restrict abortion access in Pennsylvania, often without exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
“I have proudly voted for the Republican candidate for Governor throughout my life, but I cannot vote for someone as extreme and dangerous as Doug Mastriano,” said former state Supreme Court Justice Sandra Schultz Newman Greenwood, who represented the state’s 8th District between 1993 and 2005.
“Mastriano continues to fan the flames of division, doubling down on his threats to undermine our democracy and attacking anyone who dares to criticize him.”
The endorsement of Shapiro by Republicans is the latest sign of discord with Pennsylvania's Republican Party.
In the final days before the primary, an all-out effort pushing support behind former U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, who was Mastriano's closest adversary in the polls, brought more than 100 endorsements form current and former members of Congress, state senators, county commissioners and other offices to keep Mastriano from taking the ballot spot.
Mastriano took nearly 44% of the nearly 1.35 million votes cast in his race, the other 54% spread across eight other candidates showing a clearly fractured GOP electorate. Wednesday's endorsements show the cracks in the party remain.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-leaders-back-shapiro-over-082200421.html
Nine Republican leaders from across Pennsylvania on Wednesday endorsed Democrat Josh Shapiro for governor over their own party’s nominee, state Sen. Doug Mastriano, saying he is an extreme candidate who would undermine democracy.
Mastriano's relationship with establishment Republicans was already strained despite winning the May 17 primary against eight other candidates, a race that saw a groundswell of opposition from GOP leadership concerned that his far-right positions would drive moderate voters to Shapiro in November.
Mastriano has long been a supporter of unproven claims of voter fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election and as chair of the Senate Majority Policy Committee held a hearing in Gettysburg that November that saw Rudy Giuliani, poll watchers and a phone call from former President Donald Trump espousing claims of irregularities in the election.
Mastriano has also championed legislation to restrict abortion access in Pennsylvania, often without exceptions in cases of rape or incest.
“I have proudly voted for the Republican candidate for Governor throughout my life, but I cannot vote for someone as extreme and dangerous as Doug Mastriano,” said former state Supreme Court Justice Sandra Schultz Newman Greenwood, who represented the state’s 8th District between 1993 and 2005.
“Mastriano continues to fan the flames of division, doubling down on his threats to undermine our democracy and attacking anyone who dares to criticize him.”
The endorsement of Shapiro by Republicans is the latest sign of discord with Pennsylvania's Republican Party.
In the final days before the primary, an all-out effort pushing support behind former U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, who was Mastriano's closest adversary in the polls, brought more than 100 endorsements form current and former members of Congress, state senators, county commissioners and other offices to keep Mastriano from taking the ballot spot.
Mastriano took nearly 44% of the nearly 1.35 million votes cast in his race, the other 54% spread across eight other candidates showing a clearly fractured GOP electorate. Wednesday's endorsements show the cracks in the party remain.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/republican-leaders-back-shapiro-over-082200421.html