Over at The New York Times Magazine, Charles Homans offers a long-form essay on how the Big Lie has captured the Republican Party. Much of the piece focuses on Pennsylvania and its current GOP gubernatorial candidate, Doug Mastriano. Here is […]
Pennsylvania politics
Doug Mastriano finds a place to show his campaign movie
After two sites in Lancaster County refused to premiere Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano’s movie “The Return of the American Patriot: The Rise of Pennsylvania,” a church in Lower Allen Township (Cumberland County), Christ Community Church, agreed to air […]
Never Mastrianos
Here is a taste of a recent piece at The Philadelphia Inquirer: A group of Pennsylvania Republicans with long records in government and politics will form a super PAC Wednesday to support state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the Democratic nominee […]
Doug Mastriano is still running for governor of Pennsylvania on the Trump playbook
Here is Andrew Seidman at The Philadelphia Inquirer: He went on the podcast hosted by former Donald Trump aide and “Stop the Steal” leader Steve Bannon. He named a former Trump campaign lawyer who tried to overturn Pennsylvania’s election a […]
Mehmet Oz backs away from the Trump brand
Donald Trump uses his endorsements of candidates to hold power within the GOP. But sometimes the candidates use Trump’s endorsement to win primaries, only to distance themselves from the former president in general elections. The latest candidate to do so […]
The question Josh Shapiro should ask Doug Mastriano in the first Pennsylvania gubernatorial debate
Mastriano believes that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. He believes in the Big Lie. Josh Shapiro, his Democratic opponent in the 2022 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race, should ask him this question: Would you have done what Mike Pence did on […]
My congressman, Scott Perry, asked for a presidential pardon after January 6th
Here is Myah Ward at Politico: Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, as well as multiple other Republican lawmakers, contacted the White House in the weeks after Jan. 6, 2021, to seek presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn […]
More on Pennsylvania governor candidate Doug Mastriano’s affiliation with a Conservative Mennonite Church
We reported on this on May 19, 2022. Apparently Doug Mastriano and his family attends Pond Bank Mennonite Church in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Now Tim Huber, a writer at Anabaptist World, reports on it: CMC executive director Brian Hershberger told Anabaptist World by […]
David McCormick concedes to Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania GOP senate primary
It will be John Fetterman (D) vs. Mehmet Oz (R) in November. The winner gets Pat Toomey’s seat in the United States Senate. David McCormick conceded in a civil and polite fashion. No drama. Sadly, we have now come to […]
On Doug Mastriano’s 2001 paper “The Civilian Putsch of 2018”
Here is Greg Jaffee of The Washington Post with some context: Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master’s thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would begin […]
Where does Doug Mastriano go to church?
It’s an interesting question. Where does the GOP nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, a pro-Trump, Big Lie-believing, Christian nationalist attend church? I did some digging today with the help of some friends on Twitter: Leave it to two guys with […]
The politics of spiritual warfare is clearly present in the Mastriano campaign
Lately I’ve been reading a lot of Christian Right websites from the early 21st century and I am struck by the difference between the political rhetoric of evangelical politicians then and evangelical politicians now. In the early 2000s, evangelical politicians–George […]
Pennsylvania senator Bob Casey will vote to codify Roe v. Wade into law
Here is Amy Gang and Seung Min Kim at The Washington Post: Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. said Tuesday that he would support legislation that would codify Roe v. Wade into law, a dramatic shift for one of the few remaining Democrats […]
Why Pennsylvania Democrats are hoping Christian nationalist Doug Mastriano gets the GOP nomination for governor
We have covered Mastriano before at this blog. Get up to speed on this guy here. Watch this piece by CNN: The Pennsylvania GOP knows that Mastriano will hurt them in the general election and are trying to stop him […]
New poll: Fetterman and Oz lead Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate primary races
Source. The primary elections are May 17, 2022.
“Dr. Oz is the most normal Republican” running for office in Pennsylvania
Amanda Carpenter nails it: LOL, if you thought Donald Trump’s endorsement of Dr. Mehmet Oz for Senate was the worst development in Pennsylvania’s 2022 GOP primaries, wait until you hear about the Republicans running for governor. Pennsylvania Republicans will nominate a […]
Trump endorses Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race
Donald Trump just endorsed Mehmet Oz’s candidacy for the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat currently held by Pat Toomey. Here is Trip Gabriel at The New York Times: Wading into a tight Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania, former President Donald J. […]
Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate primary race is getting ugly
The two leading GOP candidates for retiring Pat Toomey’s U.S. Senate seat are David McCormick and Mehmet Oz. McCormick is a hedge fund CEO who was Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs during the George W. Bush administration. […]
Does Dr. Oz really believe he can run as a China hawk?
Here is Daniel Lippman and Holly Otterbein at Politico: Republican Mehmet Oz, whose Pennsylvania Senate campaign against David McCormick is focused on the former hedge fund CEO’s China ties, has his own close relationship with the country that helped net […]
Doug Mastriano announces his Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign by blowing a shofar
Regular readers of this blog know a thing or two about Doug Mastriano. You can get up to speed on the antics of this pro-Trump state senator here. Last weekend Mastriano announced his candidacy for governor of Pennsylvania. American Idol […]