DOUG MASTRIANO

They are an even worse reason to suggest that the election had been stolen.

Trump, the top Republican 2024 presidential candidate, also called for the government to help the U.S. beat China in developing flying personal vehicles.

Mastriano, who was backed by Trump in a campaign for Pennsylvania governor last year, is holding a hearing this week on the East Palestine accident.

Josh Shapiro will be taking office as Pennsylvania’s next governor in January after running a campaign in which he spoke early and often about his Jewish religious heritage.

Voters with no religious affiliation supported Democratic candidates and abortion rights by staggering percentages in the 2022 midterm elections.

Bad candidates cost the GOP key races and quite possibly the Senate. Here are the ones who hurt the party the most.

Right-wing attorney Jenna Ellis, who has a history of anti-LGBTQ bigotry, suggested the victims were suffering in hell.

Walker “doesn't know what he's talking about,” said Lee, a software tester in the Atlanta suburb of Decatur who ultimately backed Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock. In Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro won the governor's race by a larger margin than John Fetterman in the Senate race, earning nearly 280,000 more votes. And in the Senate race, though Johnson won reelection over Democrat Mandela Barnes, the margin was narrower than his 2016 or 2010 victories. About 1 in 10 Republican voters backed the Democrat. Forty-one percent of Hobbs voters backed her with reservations, while 12% were voting against the other candidates.

Voters deciding to split their tickets or buck their party altogether may have helped Democrats mount a stronger-than-expected performance in the recent midterm elections.

The results prompted Michigan’s secretary of state to predict that democracy will emerge stronger than it was before former president Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 vote

Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro is beginning the transition to his new job, pledging to work constructively with lawmakers and pledging to remain as attorney general until he takes office as governor in January.

President Joe Biden tried to shape the midterm elections not as a verdict on his time in office, but rather on the contrast between Democrats and Republicans on American democracy.

Republican Blake Masters called Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly to concede in the Arizona Senate race.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — (AP) — Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor-elect of Pennsylvania, will take office with a decisive mandate from voters, who overwhelmingly rejected a Republican drive to pare back abortion rights and voting laws in the premier battleground state. Shapiro maintains that he will veto any legislation that he views as undermining abortion rights or voting rights. For his part, Shapiro said he will pursue changes to voting laws — Election Day voter registration and automatic voter registration — that have seen no traction in the Republican-controlled Legislature. With Pennsylvania certain to be a battleground in the 2024 presidential election, the focus on election laws isn't fading. But, he also said work must be done on election laws to make them “transparent, secure and more quickly decided."

Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro will take office with a decisive mandate from Pennsylvania voters, who overwhelmingly rejected a Republican drive to pare back abortion rights and voting laws in the premier battleground state.

"Voters called out crazy," a former Republican congressman said of the midterm elections.

There was no violence in the midterm elections last week, and many election deniers lost and quietly conceded.

Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R) conceded to Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro (D) on Sunday in the state’s gubernatorial race, five days after news outlets called the race against him. “Difficult to accept as the results are, there is no right course but to concede, which I do, and I look to the challenges ahead. Josh…

In Kentucky, a reliably Republican state, voters rejected a GOP-backed ballot measure aimed at denying any state constitutional protections for abortion. In contrast, about two-thirds of white evangelical voters in both Kentucky and Michigan voted against protecting abortion access. Only about one in 10 voters nationwide and across most states say abortion should be illegal in all cases, according to AP VoteCast. Even among white evangelical voters, while most say abortion should generally be illegal, only about two in 10 say abortion should be illegal in all cases. In each of those three states, roughly two-thirds or more of white evangelical Christian voters backed the GOP candidates.

Evangelical Christians across the U.S. reconfirmed their allegiance to conservative candidates and causes in the midterm elections.

CNNSen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), who will be replaced in Congress come January by Democrat John Fetterman, admitted Thursday that former President Donald Trump was not a positive influence on the Republican ticket in Pennsylvania — which saw far-right gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano lose in addition to Mehmet Oz.In a CNN interview, the retiring senator began by criticizing the effect of Mastriano’s campaign on down-ballot races. “We had an ultra-MAGA candidate who never appeared to even attempt

This week’s ballot had an unspoken candidate — American democracy.

Two days after the midterm elections, misinformation about the results remains focused on Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Democrats' strategy of meddling in Republican primaries in order to boost their preferred general election candidate appears to have paid off.

If Tuesday’s vote defied the durable history of presidential parties taking heavy losses in a midterm election, it also reinforced an often-forgotten fact: These campaigns are a patchwork of thousands of races, not a nationwide contest.

Republicans made a striking decision earlier this year to nominate candidates for top statewide posts in swing states who backed overturning President Donald Trump's loss in 2020. Doug Mastriano, who commissioned buses to take Pennsylvanians to the Jan. 6, 2021, protests in Washington failed in his bid to become that state's governor. Mathew DePerno, an attorney who filed a lawsuit spreading Trump's election lies in Michigan in 2020, lost his bid to be that state's attorney general. More significant are the outcomes in the six states that clinched Joe Biden's win in 2020 and where Trump and his allies disputed his loss. In Georgia, Trump unsuccessfully backed a slate of election conspiracy theorists in the GOP primary in May, seeking revenge against incumbent Republicans who rebuffed his requests to overturn his loss.

Election deniers who backed Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election failed in some of their highest-profile races.

A day after the midterm elections, misinformation about the results is zeroing in on the states of Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Republicans also fell short of a super-majority in the Wisconsin state legislature, meaning that the GOP cannot overturn vetoes by Evers. Dixon, a right-wing media commentator, had supported the false belief that Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 election. Karamo had aggressively promoted debunked claims about the 2020 election. Those three Rust Belt states — Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania — have been the key swing states in presidential elections for years now, and will be central once again in 2024. Marchant has worked with Finchem and Karamo to foment unfounded allegations about the 2020 election.

Facing tremendous political headwinds, the Democrats fought Republicans to a stunning midterm draw.

Republicans inched closer to a narrow House majority while control of the Senate hinges on tight Arizona, Nevada and Georgia races.

In Michigan, Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson declared victory over Kristina Karamo, a community college instructor who became one of the most prominent election conspiracists in the country. Races in Arizona and Nevada, major swing states where election conspiracists were competing for secretary of state positions, remained too early to call. Still, in Republican-leaning states, some election conspiracists did win secretary of state offices. Wyoming Republican Chuck Gray, a state lawmaker who also endorsed efforts to overturn the 2020 election, was running unopposed for secretary of state. Raffensperger was up against Democratic state Sen. Bee Nguyen on Tuesday.

Votes are still being counted in key races, but it’s clear that Republicans are paying a price for selecting poor candidates.

Their victories reflected the lack of a penalty for Republican politicians who stuck with former president Donald Trump after he sought to overturn the 2020 result.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro wins Pennsylvania race for governor beating Trump-backed Republican Doug Mastriano.

Attorney General Josh Shapiro declared victory in the Pennsylvania governor’s race, keeping the state’s executive branch under Democratic control and alleviating concerns about his opponent undermining the 2024 election. With incumbent Tom Wolf term-limited out of office, Shapiro defeated Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano to fill the open seat. But he struggled to raise funds and did not begin running television ads until late in the general election campaign. With Pennsylvania's Legislature expected to stay in Republican control, Shapiro has vowed to veto any new restrictions. In September, a Mastriano campaign adviser called for supporters to push the Republican Governors Association to get involved in the race.

Voters cast ballots for governors in 36 states on Tuesday, with 20 held by Republicans and 16 held by Democrats.

The race for governor is critical to determining the future of abortion access in Pennsylvania.View Entire Post ›

Democrat Josh Shapiro won his bid for governor of Pennsylvania over Republican Doug Mastriano.

Election machine mishaps and delays in vote counting became the latest fodder for political misinformation on Election Day.

Republicans who backed Donald Trump’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 election have lost key races to oversee elections in some competitive states.

In Pennsylvania, Trump loyalist Doug Mastriano, the Republican candidate for governor, has struggled in the polls against Democrat Josh Shapiro. Other Trump loyalists to watch: Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance, North Carolina Senate contender Ted Budd, Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon and New York gubernatorial hopeful Lee Zeldin. In Nevada, Republican Jim Marchant is running to become the secretary of state, the state's chief elections official. Lake, Arizona's Republican candidate for governor, is already thought to be a potential Trump running mate. Strategists on both sides believe the state's Senate race, in particular, may do just that.

Democrats hope that Shapiro, who is polling well in his race against Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano, will help pull Fetterman across the finish line. On Saturday night in Philadelphia, Fetterman and Shapiro were joined by President Biden and former President Barack Obama, while earlier in the day Obama had rallied for Fetterman near the University of Pittsburgh. “There's a pro tip: Please, if you're gonna give a speech after you've been recovering from a stroke, you really don't want to have to come before Barack Obama,” Fetterman said Saturday in Pittsburgh. The Oz campaign hopes that it can win over enough Shapiro voters to close the gap with Fetterman. “I have a small group of friends that will stick to the Republican Party and vote for Republican candidates,” she said.

American voters are fractured politically and culturally ahead of Election Day, and they are anxious about where their country is heading — on inflation, abortion, immigration, crime, and much more.

In Pennsylvania, Trump loyalist Doug Mastriano, the Republican candidate for governor, has struggled in the polls against Democrat Josh Shapiro. Other Trump loyalists to watch: Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance, North Carolina Senate contender Ted Budd, Michigan gubernatorial candidate Tudor Dixon and New York gubernatorial hopeful Lee Zeldin. In Nevada, Republican Jim Marchant is running to become the secretary of state, the state's chief elections official. Lake, Arizona's Republican candidate for governor, is already thought to be a potential Trump running mate. Strategists on both sides believe the state's Senate race, in particular, may do just that.

All 50 states are hosting midterm elections that will determine the balance of power in Washington and state capitals across the nation.

Mr. Biden will head to Westchester County, New York, while Trump is in Miami.

U.S. faith leaders have squeezed in some final messages about the midterm elections during their weekend worship services.

In front of thousands of fans, the ex-president predicted GOP victories in Tuesday's election — and teased his all-but-certain campaign to regain the White House.

The extraordinary convergence of the current president and his two predecessors highlights the broad implications of Pennsylvania this year and beyond.

Figures like corporate-marketer-turned-prophet Lance Wallnau have been appearing with candidates all over the country this year, preaching spiritual warfare.

Obama and Fetterman will appear alongside President Joe Biden and gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro later in the day in Philadelphia. Obama campaigned in recent days across Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona before hitting Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, Trump will hold a rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, to bolster Oz and Mastriano on Saturday night. The event is part of a final rally blitz that will also take Trump to Florida and Ohio -- both critical presidential battleground states. Republicans in Westmoreland County, where Trump will speak Saturday, hope that the former president will do just that on Saturday.

The Democratic Party’s most powerful voices are warning that abortion, Social Security and democracy itself are at risk as they labor to overcome fierce political headwinds over the final weekend of the 2022 campaign.

GOP candidates center education argument around a set of culture war issues including criticizing transgender rights and the “indoctrination” of schoolchildren.

“As a family, we so much love Israel,” she said. Trump has repeatedly complained that American Jews do not reward the Republican Party's blanket support for Israel — which he has referred to as "your country" when speaking to American Jews — regarding the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. "Jewish people who live in the United States don't love Israel enough," Trump told an Orthodox Jewish magazine last year. Trump has said now repeatedly that basically there's something wrong with American Jews because they don't love Israel as much as he does. Right-wing American support, evangelical Christian support for Israel is really nothing new.

A Canadian university that granted a doctorate in history to Doug Mastriano nearly a decade before he became the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania is investigating a fresh complaint about his work that makes multiple allegations of academic fraud in his recently public dissertation. University of New Brunswick President Paul Mazerolle told The Associated Press in a phone interview Saturday that the school is also bringing in a team of outsiders to review its policies and procedures for graduate study, including issues raised by how Mastriano's research was handled and evaluated.

Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, appears in a little-noticed film that some scholars say distorts the Holocaust to promote a conservative agenda.

A series of bigoted comments from GOP candidates’ associates or supporters have raised alarms among many Democrats and Jewish advocacy groups.

The backlash against pandemic restrictions has become a more potent talking point than the public-health crisis itself.

In the state’s midterms—which could determine the balance of the Senate and the integrity of the Presidential race in 2024—Democrats are fighting for the vote. Republicans are fighting to undermine it.

Abortion access in several states could hinge on the outcome of November elections of lawmakers, governors, supreme court justices and attorneys general.

Nowhere in sight — and not even mentioned — was Doug Mastriano, the GOP nominee for governor against Democrat Josh Shapiro. Like Mastriano, Oz has been endorsed by Trump. But unlike Mastriano, Oz hasn't been warmly embraced by Trump's most loyal voters — the ones that form Mastriano's far-right base. “It's like he’s still running a primary campaign,” said Republican campaign strategist Bob Salera. Oz, meanwhile, emphasizes national GOP talking points on crime and inflation, aiming to persuade swing voters and even Democrats.

Republicans have political winds at their back, but the party's nominees in Pennsylvania for governor and Senate are running dramatically different campaigns and targeting two very different types of voters.

An energized President Joe Biden returned Friday to the Keystone State, his 15th visit since he took office, this time to attend a fundraiser with Vice President Kamala Harris and other leaders to boost Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman.

A drag queen story time at a Maryland library near Columbia, Md. has enraged parents according to Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo.

Republican Doug Mastriano’s campaign has several hallmarks of Christian nationalism, which fuses Christian and political imagery, words and rituals and promotes a belief that America has been and should be a Christian nation. Mastriano, a state senator, has rejected the “Christian nationalist” label, though his political events often carry the feel of a worship service. At the recent church event, a campaign staffer told a reporter Mastriano would not be taking questions. He said Shapiro appears to be contrasting his broader view of religious freedom in a diverse population with Mastriano’s narrower one. At the Carmichaels church, Mastriano addressed a small but enthusiastic crowd on a September morning.

In one of the most closely watched races in one of the most contested of battleground states, both gubernatorial candidates bring up religion. Mastriano's campaign has several hallmarks of Christian nationalism, which fuses Christian and political imagery, words and rituals and promotes a belief that America has been and should be a Christian nation. He said Shapiro appears to be contrasting his broader view of religious freedom in a diverse population with Mastriano’s narrower one. At the Carmichaels church, Mastriano addressed a small but enthusiastic crowd on a September morning. ___Associated Press religion coverage receives support through the AP’s collaboration with The Conversation US, with funding from Lilly Endowment Inc.

In one of the most closely watched races in one of the most contested battleground states, both candidates for governor in Pennsylvania bring religion into their campaigns.

A Philadelphia parent expressed concern after receiving word that a first-grade class soon would be participating in a drag queen story hour, sparking a debate.

A new sense of uncertainty has risen over Pennsylvania’s pivotal Senate contest.

Josh Shapiro is well liked, while Doug Mastriano is viewed as extreme.

Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman struggled at times to explain his positions and spoke haltingly throughout a highly anticipated debate against Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz as they vie for a critical U.S. Senate seat.

A new poll indicates that Democrats have a slight lead over Republicans in the Michigan and Pennsylvania gubernatorial races but the results are too close to call in Wisconsin.

Entertainment, election falsehoods and religious views merge as Trump supporters try to boost Republican turnout in November.

Such voters have been in decline for years as the country has grown ever more polarized. But they could be pivotal this year in key battlegrounds.

Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano, R-Chambersburg/Gettysburg, sounded off on his gubernatorial race against Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro.

As the campaign trail heats up in the final weeks before November’s midterm elections, so have more overt appeals to racial animus and resentment.

"He believes that they all should resign," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.

In one of the most politically competitive states in the U.S., the Democratic contender for Pennsylvania governor is waging a notably drama-free campaign.

An Associated Press review has found that nearly 1 in 3 Republican candidates for statewide offices that play a role in overseeing, certifying or defending elections supported overturning the 2020 presidential election.

It's Donald Trump's first rally of the general election season, a Saturday night event in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with Republican candidates in the pivotal state.

Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor is suing the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, contesting its legal ability to force him to answer questions about it.

Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano posed in a Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College, three years before he retired from the U.S. Army.

The House panel investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has interviewed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and met briefly with Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor Doug Mastriano as it probes Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

Republicans are warming up to the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano.

The fate of the Democratic Party is intertwined in a pair of Pennsylvania elections that’ll be closely watched this year.

Dozens of Republican candidates who sought Donald Trump’s endorsement have spent months parroting the former president's baseless claims of 2020 election fraud.

The Pennsylvania Republican nominee for governor who's pushed Donald Trump's election lies has appointed Trump's former campaign lawyer as a senior legal adviser to his campaign.

Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano, has offered to sit for a voluntary interview with the congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection.

If Republican Doug Mastriano is elected governor of Pennsylvania, the state could become a test case for his idea to wipe its voter rolls clean and make everyone re-register if they want to vote again.

A movement known as Christian nationalism is making its presence known in many Republican primary races this year.

Doug Mastriano is not the only candidate who won a Republican primary on Tuesday after embracing former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

Former President Donald Trump’s influence was enough to elevate his Senate candidate to victory in North Carolina on Tuesday.

Former U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador has won Idaho’s Republican attorney general primary, beating a longtime incumbent who'd been criticized by the far right for not taking a more activist role.

Donald Trump’s choice for Pennsylvania governor has won his primary, and his Senate pick is locked in an exceedingly close contest as the former president works to expand his hold on the Republican Party.

Doug Mastriano has won the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania.

A Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor says he is ending his campaign and endorsing rival Lou Barletta.

With six days until Pennsylvania’s primary, Republicans are openly worrying that a leading candidate in the crowded GOP field running for governor is unelectable in the fall general election.

The fight for Congress often dominates midterm elections.

In the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where former President Donald Trump lost by 80,000 votes eight months ago, his false claims of a stolen election are finding new signs of life.