Sixteen months after Donald Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill to try
to stop the certification of Joe Biden as president, a prominent
election denier in Pennsylvania inched closer to becoming the next
governor of Pennsylvania. State Sen. Doug Mastriano — who attended and
helped organize for the “Stop the Steal” rally, has called for audits of
Keystone State votes and has been subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 panel —
clinched the GOP gubernatorial nomination. If he wins this fall, he’ll
be in a position to nominate the next Pennsylvania secretary of state, a
position that oversees elections in the key presidential battleground
state.

And, one week after catapulting J.D. Vance to victory in Ohio, Trump had
a somewhat decent night, though the verdict on perhaps his biggest
gamble — supporting Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s tight Senate primary —
is still out.

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