PHILADELPHIA — The ominous mailer has an image of Doug Mastriano on one side. The other has a clipping from a news article reporting that the state senator wanted the federal government to suspend privacy laws so local health departments could "release names and locations" of COVID-19 patients.
"We can't trust Doug Mastriano," warns the mailer, which was paid for by a well-funded conservative political group and sent to Republican primary voters this week.
The attack was the clearest sign yet that most Pennsylvania Republican insiders see Mastriano, one of the state's leading election deniers, as the front-runner for the party's nomination for governor — and are increasingly worried about it.
