PITTSBURGH — A political committee with connections to the Never Trump movement and to a high-profile neoconservative, will dip into Pennsylvania's gubernatorial race, "playing heavily" — its political director said — to convince college-educated suburban voters to buck Republican Doug Mastriano.
The Republican Accountability PAC is putting $2 million behind a campaign in Pennsylvania to convince voters — those who may have broken with Donald Trump in 2020, especially — that they should do the same with Mastriano, the GOP state senator who is up against Democrat Josh Shapiro in the November election.
The effort from the Washington-based committee is taking the name "Republican Voters Against Mastriano," and went up with a six-figure TV ad campaign this week across the commonwealth that features personal testimonies from Republican voters who say Mastriano is unfit to govern and too extreme.
