CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — Doug Mastriano, a far-right state senator and leading voice in Pennsylvania’s election denial movement who drew national attention for his efforts to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 defeat, has won the Republican nomination for governor, according to the Associated Press.
Mastriano, 58, prevailed in Tuesday’s nine-candidate primary election despite a frantic 11th-hour push by some Pennsylvania GOP insiders to rally behind an alternative and avert what they fear will be certain defeat in November to state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the Democratic nominee. Mastriano got a late boost over the weekend, when Trump endorsed him.
“We’re under siege now,” Mastriano told supporters gathered at a restaurant here before the race was called. “The media doesn’t like groups of us who believe certain things. Everyone in the room should believe what we want and we should not be mocked for that.”
