PHILADELPHIA — State Attorney General Josh Shapiro started spending more than $1 million Sunday for two television ads linking State Sen. Doug Mastriano, his Republican opponent in the race for governor in Pennsylvania, to “antisemitic, alt-right extremists” on the social media platform Gab.
Mastriano on Saturday went after Shapiro on the campaign trail, citing a long-debunked claim about New York billionaire George Soros that has been criticized as antisemitic.
Shapiro’s ads about the $5,000 Mastriano paid Gab in April for consulting are getting special play in Pittsburgh.
