Republicans just nominated one of the most radical governor candidates in history | Judd Legum

Doug Mastriano may be one of the most radical candidates ever to receive a Republican nod and he has been clear that he will use that power

Pennsylvania Republicans have nominated state senator Doug Mastriano to be the next governor. Mastriano is one of the most radical gubernatorial candidates ever to receive a major party nomination.

Many Republicans have indulged Trump's claims that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election. But few have gone as far as Mastriano has to try to justify Trump's fever dream.

I'm Doug Mastriano, and I get to appoint the secretary of state who's delegated from me the power to make the corrections to elections, the voting logs and everything. I could decertify every machine in the state with the stroke of a pen via the secretary of state. I already had the secretary of state picked out. It's a world-class person that knows voting integrity better than anyone else in the nation, I think, and I already have a team that's gonna be built around that individual.

Judd Legum is the founder and author of Popular Information, an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism, where this post originally appeared