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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.
He’s frustrated that Oz is having to wait for counts of absentee ballots and delayed votes counted in person. Those votes are just as valid as any cast in person. But Trump is running the same corrupt playbook that he used nearly two years ago to falsely claim he won a second term.
As long as Trump is breathing, we'll not have truly honest elections.
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