The Mastriano Pileup in the Pennsylvania Elections - WSJ Editorial

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3. The Democrats Get Their Man in Pennsylvania - post elections WSJ editorial

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Mr. Trump endorsed late in that race, after Mr. Mastriano already had a substantial polling lead, so he can’t claim sole credit for the state Senator’s win in a multicandidate field. But Mr. Mastriano played to Mr. Trump’s obsession that the 2020 election was stolen. Mr. Mastriano is the candidate Democrats wanted to run against in November, and they ran ads essentially telling Trump voters he was their man.

Last month Mr. Mastriano addressed a “Patriots Arise” rally, where other speakers lamented “child satanic trafficking” and other QAnon nonsense. He sponsored a bill to ban abortion after about six weeks and said at a recent debate that, “I don’t give way for exceptions either.” He wants to rip up contracts with “compromised voting machine companies,” while doing a reset of the voter rolls: “You’re going to have to re-register.”

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If Republicans lose this election, it’s their own fault, and a warning about chasing 2020 ghosts instead of focusing on the future. One small prophylactic could be to pass a bill soon to let mail votes be preprocessed a few days before Election Day, as many other states permit. Pennsylvania’s current rules led this week to late results. That’s the kind of thing that Mr. Mastriano could use to claim another stolen election in November.

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