GOP State Senator Called Pro-Trump Effort a 'Death Match' Before Heading to Capitol
A Pennsylvania state senator described the effort to overturn President Donald Trump's election loss as a "death match with the Democrat party" days before heading to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, when pro-Trump rioters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol.
State Senator Doug Mastriano, a Republican, made the remarks January 4 on conservative talk radio program The Eric Metaxas Radio Show. Two days later, he headed to the Capitol to join thousands of other Trump supporters demanding that Congress disregard President-elect Joe Biden's victory. The crowd rioted and violently breached the building, resulting in five deaths, although Mastriano did not directly take part in the violence himself.
"Basically, we're in this death match with the Democrat Party where we're playing by all these, you know, Chatham House Rules and what have you," Mastriano said on the radio show. "Meanwhile, they're running circles around us. And I'm not saying anything we need to step out that that's not constitutional, but we need to have a little more courage, instead of shooting at each other."
Mastriano has been a prominent voice in support of unsubstantiated claims that massive fraud was to blame for Trump's loss in Pennsylvania. Despite no evidence that massive fraud occurred, along with multiple court challenges failing to change the outcome and the state officially certifying Biden's win, he persisted in pushing claims that "what actually happened" was not clear. Biden won the state by around 80,000 votes, nearly twice the margin that Trump had over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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Yes,.... like the Dems are the Nazi stormtroopers,....
And the ReThugs are the innocent, meek, frail, and shy choir boys.
