According to NPR, support for Doug Mastriano, the right-wing Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania, is growing; Prominent doors and backers have come on board. In response, Democrats point out Mastriano's ties to the far right.
Allegheny County Dem Dan Frankel put it succinctly - There is no coming back from this. You cannot do business with these people (i.e., entities like gab.com) and claim to represent all Pennsylvanians … if you embrace antisemites and racists and homophobes and xenophobes, then you are one of them.
Frankel says Mastriano's positions feel particularly personal for him. In 2018, his House district was the site of the country’s deadliest-ever antisemitic attack. Robert Bowers, the man who killed 11 Jewish worshippers in the Tree of Life Synagogue, used Gab frequently to post and engage with antisemitic conspiracy theories.
State Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta (D-Philadelphia), a former candidate for U.S. Senate who attended the press conference, added that in some cases, GOP colleagues — he declined to say who — have denounced Mastriano privately, but won’t do so publicly.
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