Yeah, he is awful.
He should shut up about that stolen election - talking like a crazy election denier turns a lot of people off.
Also, he should temper his pro-life stance. Pointing out that killing unborn babies is not a “right” - not a woman’s “healthcare choice” - that kind of talk is just going to alienate suburban women.
And WHY does he have to be so tone deaf about the importance of USA energy dominance and how job-killing petroleum regulations hurt PA? It makes him appear to be a climate change denier!
The worst is how insensitive he is about Affirmative Action, the plight of undocumented refugees seeking political asylum, and the woke LGBTQX movement - insisting there are only two sexes - this plays right into the Left’s strategy of demonizing him as an extremist and a racist.
His biggest campaign failure has been openly embracing President Trump and his MAGA movement and directly attacking the globalist RINO establishment. This has forced Republican leadership like Mitch MicConnell to cut off all support and $$, and openly support his Democrat opponent, Josh Shapiro, who is more moderate.
There’s a right way and a wrong way to work the system and get into the GOP inner circle, and Mastriano is just not playing ball. As a result, he’s getting outspent 50 to 1.
These campaign blunders are compounded by the way Mastriano goes everywhere in the state - even places he’s not wanted - like the energizer bunny - relentlessly telling the unvarnished truth, and rudely pointing out that his opponent is afraid to debate him.
He is also rude to the press - calling them fake news. That’s not going to win him any friends in the press!! He breaks Reagan’s golden rule of politics: never criticize a fellow Republican - he does it all the time!
He’s making exactly the same mistakes President Trump made - blurting out the truth too much - working too hard - calling out corruption even within this own party.
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What you haven’t pointed out is that for most Pennsylvania voters outside his core followers, most voters only know Mastriano from what they see in Shapiro’s campaign ads.
Letting your opponent define you is one of the worst things you can do in politics.
Mastriano may be a great guy, but he’s a political amateur who is in way over his head. During this campaign I haven’t seen anything from him that is going to attract a single vote that he wouldn’t have gotten already anyway. This is a major blunder in a state where Democrats outnumber Republicans by a margin of around 500,000 voters.