Daily News | How the Pa. Republican establishment broke itself trying to stop Doug Mastriano
On a rainy Friday earlier this month, several leading Republican candidates for governor drove to Westmoreland County in western Pennsylvania for formerWith less than two weeks before the primary election, State Sen. Doug Mastriano was leading in the polls, and some of the candidates and their aides were holding out hope Trump would use the rally to endorse a rival who could topple the front-runner.
And even as party insiders started to coalesce behind former U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta – who was second in the poll – a proposal to infuse his campaign with more cash never materialized. As the GOP turns its focus toward the general election against Democratic nominee Josh Shapiro, Republicans are also trying to assess what went wrong over the last several months. Many are pointing the finger at Tabas, saying he failed to provide leadership.
Allies of McSwain believed as early as September that the group would be endorsing him. It was “very, very much implied,” according to a source close to McSwain. Just as the poll was being conducted, the campaign took a turn with a “Mar-a-Lago missile,” as one source put it – an April 12 statement from Trump blasting McSwain for not prosecuting voter fraud in Philadelphia in the 2020 election. .
But the attacks didn’t affect Mastriano’s standing in the polls. And Mastriano got a boost from an unlikely source – Democrats. Shapiro’s campaign in early May started airing TV ads linking him to Trump – apparently believing Mastriano was the weakest Republican candidate. The state Democratic Party sent mailers to GOP primary voters with a similar message.
In a statement, Reilly said he was a neutral party who was asked by the remaining non-Mastriano candidates to coordinate a poll that “was suggested.” By that evening, however, Barletta’s team was expecting to get more cash from Commonwealth. Although there were just a few days left in the race, Barletta’s team thought it could spend the cash on digital ads and get- out- the- vote operations like paying a firm to conduct live phone calls to primary voters, according to a source close to Barletta.On Friday, McSwain’s campaign transferred $500,000 to Commonwealth’s PAC, at Commonwealth’s request.
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