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brooklynite

(94,598 posts)
Fri Sep 9, 2022, 11:38 AM Sep 2022

Trumpier than Trump

Axios

Some GOP candidates are softening their rhetoric and scrubbing their campaign websites of hardline positions as the midterms get closer. But Doug Mastriano is running a much different playbook in the Pennsylvania governor's race, one of the most important contests in the nation.

Driving the news: He has doubled down on false claims about the 2020 election. He's ghosting the mainstream media and spending nothing on TV advertising, relying instead on Facebook livestreams and far-right media.

He has a small staff largely unknown to Pennsylvania politicos. And he may tap a woman who has described QAnon as "a very valuable resource" to be the state's top election official.

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Trumpier than Trump (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2022 OP
Doug Mastria NO! dchill Sep 2022 #1
What a hideous thought Blue Owl Sep 2022 #2
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