Trump taints Pennsylvania GOP Senate primary with fresh fraud lies

[groundloop]

Source: CNN

Ex-President Donald Trump is injecting his democracy-damaging fraud claims into a new election cycle, urging his friend Mehmet Oz to simply declare he won a too-close-to-call race for the Republican Senate nomination in Pennsylvania -- a key state in Trump's desperate bid to steal the 2020 election.

The cliffhanger contest between Oz and David McCormick, another claimant to Trump's legacy, is the marquee race from Tuesday's round of primaries -- and carries calamitous echoes of 2020 election controversy and ill omens for 2024.

As does the runaway victor in the commonwealth's GOP gubernatorial primary -- state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who ran a campaign rooted in Trump's falsehoods about the last presidential election being stolen and who could oversee the 2024 White House race in the state if he wins in November.

In a state that could be pivotal to control of the US Senate, top Republicans are raising concerns that Mastriano could drag the party's Senate nominee down, while Democratic nominee Josh Shapiro is already shaping the race by warning the state could fall into the clutches of a dangerous extremist.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/19/politics/trump-pennsylvania-election-fraud-lies/index.html

[Ocelot II]

1. Trump's taint is everywhere.

[Mortos]

17. Well his taint is enormous

[Ocelot II]

19. And it's better not to think about it at all -

but I can't help wondering whether it's orange.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Take heart, Democrats

Fetterman and Shapiro are way and above the best qualified Democratic candidates for their offices in a long while, and they are very very good campaigners. They answer opposition attacks, they're smart in their responses, they have actual policies. I don't know if they'll win, but they put up a ferocious fight as America watches.

[Johnyawl]

9. I have confidence in those two...

...they have both won statewide races; as you said, they both know how to campaign in PA.

[TeamProg]

3. RePukes are a bunch of five year olds -- the angry ones, anyway. No offense to 5 yr olds everywhere

[PatSeg]

4. Most five year olds

are much more honest and reasonable than these fools.

[TeamProg]

11. Without a doubt! n/t

[sarchasm]

5. I'd rather have 5 year old's in office than any of the current GQP's so-called "adults."

[cornball 24]

8. Can we refer to them as "aDOLTS"!

[IronLionZion]

6. Oh yes! fight this all the way to November and beyond

[AZLD4Candidate]

7. Wow . . .an actual honest headline and opening paragraph from the MSM

Someone's going to be fired over this. Most of the MSM are nothing more than an unofficial public relations liaison for the RNC.

[Historic NY]

10. You just knew he would

its a damn primary, what happens in the general the bloate3d POS will spew even more.

[mpcamb]

12. I wish these articles would mention the consecutive court losses for that claim.

It puts things in perspective and it does it in an inarguable way.

Republican courts, Republican judges in red states have denied
and defeated his lie over and over again.

The count of cases and appeals lost over 80-0 when last I saw it.

[oldsoftie]

13. Well, simply claiming you won doesnt mean a damn thing, does it?

Otherwise trump would be president

[hay rick]

14. Trump running around naked again for all to see...who want to see.

[KPN]

15. And it still may not, probably doesn't matter.

At least from a legal/criminal accountability perspective.

[FakeNoose]

16. Let's build a wall at the Pennsylvania border and keep Chump out

It distresses me that Chump will be all over Pennsylvania this summer ... IF Oz wins. He'll hold rallies and pretend they're for Oz, but we all know they're really for Chump. If McCormick is the candidate, I think Chump will stay out of it.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

18. Operation Sore Loser

Redux

[Blue Owl]

20. tRump's Dr. Meh really clinched an impressive vote count