Doug Mastriano is gonna be the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania.
Now, why is this bad?
Well it's bad for a lot of different reasons.
You can see there he got the endorsement from president Trump hardly a good thing
from our point of view.
A guy that Trump was enthusiastic about.
We're gonna get to some different aspects of master and he's a bad guy.
But one that really is gonna matter if he wins and is the governor when the 2024
presidential election happens can be summed up from a little clip.
Let's go to this thumbnail.
This tweet I should say, we're not gonna play the actual video for
you cuz you can barely make out what he's saying.
But one douche bags interviewing this other douche bag and just one and
he says 20 electoral votes, that's what he'll be delivering.
And Mastriano says, yeah, what does that mean?
That means he's gonna deliver the electoral votes of Pennsylvania if he is
the governor.
What does that mean?
Doesn't it depend on who the Republican nominee is, how they run,
how the people vote.
No, to Mastriano, none of that actually matters.
Because if you recall back in 2020 as a state senator, he said this, there is
mounting evidence that the Pennsylvania president's election was compromised.
If this is the case under blah blah blah,
the state legislature is the sole authority to direct the manner
of selecting delegates to the electoral college.
This power was given to the state legislature for
the purpose of safeguarding the appointment of our president,
specifically contemplating corruption and ensuring that the people are not in
a disenfranchised through a corrupt election process.
What does that mean?
He wanted to decertify Joe Biden as the winner in Pennsylvania and
just have the Republican state legislature,
which Pennsylvania has choose their own electors.
So he decided, we lost, it would be better if we won.
So I think we're gonna win and now he's not gonna be a state senator,
potentially if he goes on and wins in the general election,
it's not guaranteed he's gonna be going up against.
I believe it's Josh Shapiro, right, that he's going up against.
I believe in any event he'll be in charge potentially,
he'll be choosing people who will be involved in this.
He can potentially override the vote and as we'll get to in a little bit,
he is not the only person that might be in that sort of position.
So this is very much something to be worried about.
JR, what do you think about Mastriano?
You're muted by the way.
>> Jeez, Mastriano and that whole line about how he's gonna be this
sole person who can appoint the delegates and electorate, the sole authority to
direct the manner of selecting delegates to the electoral college.
So he gets to choose himself, openly saying this.
First of all, there's lots of underlining meanings behind even these types of
statements that these politicians like to make.
First of all, that you believe your party sucks so much that you're gonna lose.
You're saying it right now, we're gonna lose naturally and
we're gonna lose in a fair process.
So good thing I'm here to make sure that we don't lose.
It sounds like you're calling your party's a bunch of losers and
have positions that people really don't want to vote for.
Why isn't the claim when I get in the governor's mansion,
people gonna love what we do so much that they're gonna they're gonna vote for
us every cycle, we're never gonna lose this seat again.
Why is that not the case?
Cuz they don't care about what people think,
they don't care about what voters think.
The whole thought process is I'm gonna get in the office and I'm gonna fix it.
That's the reason why, honestly,
I didn't think they really believe that the election was fixed.
I thought they were just saying that because Donald Trump said so, but
people like him actually believe it and
it's because when they're in power they would do exactly what is it they're saying
that their political opponents are doing cuz they're corrupt.
Corrupt people only know corruption.
There's no fairness, there's no normal democracy in this guy's mind.
What is that,
we fix elections here because that's what I would do cuz I know my policies suck.
That's what he's telling everyone right now.
>> 100% in the same way that all of the right wing media is like the Democrats
are importing new voters, they're gonna replace,
they just bring these people in and then those are automatic votes for them.
They don't fill in the blank which is because even if this was happening,
which isn't, insane racist theory, they'll never vote for us.
Why would anyone do that?
They completely telling themselves and they're doing that in this to you would
not be electing people whose sole appeal is that they will fix the vote for
you if you thought you could win.
Now, to be fair, the right is generally not very good at self analysis
critically looking at themselves and in this case they seem to be able to do that.
They have looked at the evidence over the past three decades.
Republicans effectively never win the popular vote for president.
So yeah, I would prioritize cheating too if I was them and they are doing that.
Mastriano one, effectively only campaigning on the fact that he believes
the big lie and he's not the only one.
In Arizona, the leading candidate to be the Republican gubernatorial nominee is
Carrie Lake who was asked if she would have certified Arizona's election in 2020,
said hell no.
In Michigan the leading GOP candidate for governor said,
I don't know if I would have told Trump that I would have certified the results.
So he's at least not sure if he would have, gone along with democracy.
In Wisconsin Rebecca Cleavage, she won't say whether she was sort of certified it.
So who knows, seems important, I would press her for an answer but we don't know.
And by the way, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin,
you know what those all are?
Swing States, important states and presidential elections and
they have gone all in on we're going to get people that are gonna make what we
tried to do in 2020 work the next time and they might actually be able to do it.
And if it happens, let's say jump ahead me and Jake and Anna and Francesca and
Jr doing election coverage and I guess this would have been like a month later,
they're just not gonna accept the results.
So what's going to happen then, the democrats are gonna fight hard against it.
The media is gonna band together and say that this is unacceptable.
The Supreme Court is gonna make them go along with the constitution with the law.
Those are our shields, supposedly, I would argue their phantom shields,
I don't think that they actually exist.
And so we're years out and so I understand that maybe you think let's just focus on
the now but I already feel it in my gut that this is what we're racing towards.
If the election is even somewhat close in 2024,
they're gonna pull the 2020 playbook again and
this time they're gonna have way more people in the field to make it happen.
>> Well, you talked about being years out and we were years out from other things
when Donald Trump came in office or even before he was in office.
And Mitch McConnell was trying to make sure that certain folks were on
the Supreme Court or the certain folks were not on the Supreme Courte as long as
they were nominated by Democratic President.
That they were not on the Supreme Court and
that led to where we are now with this draft memo and Roe versus Wade.
So we can talk about what's years out, that shouldn't be something that makes us
go, let's wait and see, it's happening right now.
The infrastructure is being put in place to allow that outcome.
Just like the infrastructure is being put in place as far as the Supreme Court and
the nominees to put in place to where we've now gotten.
Where eventually, I guess this summer they're gonna go ahead and
vote that down and we have that battle on our hands.
So there's no way to overestimate the potential disaster that someone like
this could be and we should call it out at every moment.
So again, if this guy has a problem with the election process,
doesn't that mean his election last night was fraudulent.
This is the same state that you said, >> It
doesn't do, >> [LAUGH]
>> Fair elections.
And if it was fair fine, I'm sure he'll say that.
What is it that happened last night with the election process that's not gonna
happen in November since you already are calling that it's gonna be corrupt.
What is it that's already changed?
It's just naturally changes because you got elected.
These questions don't get asked because people are too busy nodding their heads
are going, I can't believe he's gonna do this.
Ask him how this works.
It's a very easy question to ask and he's not going to answer it, but
it's just how Doug, how?
He can't tell you because he's lying.
>> Really fast why don't you quit more things?
Sophie it's gonna be okay.
Super fast, Dr. Oz his race, it's super close.
Dr. Oz will probably end up being the winner over David McCormick,
who is the Republican establishment anti-Trump or
whatever that matters in terms of policy candidate.
So we will see what happens with that.
By the way, the advice that Donald Trump has provided to Dr.
Oz was on Truth Social, which he's now on.
We taunted him so much that he's now actually truthing, he said Dr.
Oz should declare victory.
It makes it much harder for
them to cheat with the ballots that they just happened to find.
[LAUGH] He's admitting there that he doesn't think he actually won.
Anyway, by the way, credit to the graphics team, I put that in super late,
I didn't expect them to get it so thank you for getting that.
But yeah, it's just like you just declare they'll let you do it.
First of all, it makes it way harder for them to cheat.
Dude, you tried to do that, are you in the White House right now?
Apparently, it doesn't make it that much harder to cheat cuz you lost still.
And by the way, super last thing, there's been a question for
some time to Republican voters, do you consider yourself to be a supporter of
Donald Trump or a supporter of the Republican Party?
Okay, the% Donald Trump rather than the Republican Party 34%.
That is the lowest it's ever been since they've been asking that.
The support of the GOP is at 58%, that's the highest.
So he's still obviously important or whatever but it's the lowest level.
That is we're looking at that very briefly,
you know who is staring at that and salivating?
Ron DeSantis.
Ooh, he's considering running against Trump?
Can you imagine their debates?
There's the possibility that one of them will actually drop their pants cuz it's
gonna get wilder than 2016, you can guarantee that.
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