In Pennsylvania's gubernatorial race, the Democratic nominee, State Attorney General Josh Shapiro, and his supporters have run countless ads slamming GOP nominee Doug Mastriano as a dangerous, unhinged extremist. And it isn't hard to do: Mastriano is a far-right conspiracy theorist who holds severe Christian nationalist views, embraces QAnon, believes that women who have abortions should face murder charges, falsely claims the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, and associates with white nationalists and antisemites.
Mastriano's willingness to associate with extremists has received a great deal of media scrutiny. But one association that hasn't been reported until now is the Mastriano campaign's connection to a fringe Facebook group called Mastriano's Memes.
