Pennsylvania’s complex Republican politics could represent a needle Trump can't thread, writes Ed_Kilgore
He’s the Trumpiest of them all. Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images With just a few days left until Pennsylvania’s May 17 Republican primary concludes, Donald Trump bit the bullet and endorsed State Senator Doug Mastriano, a loyal foot soldier in Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election results, for the governorship.
Besides campaigning with key figures in Trump’s circle who have spread lies about the last election, Mastriano also floated a plan to let state lawmakers wipe out that election result and make their own decision on which candidate should receive the state’s electoral votes. As Trump himself put it in his endorsement statement, Mastriano was the Trumpiest of them all in the Keystone State: “He is a fighter like few others, and has been with me right from the beginning, and now I have an obligation to be with him.”
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