Pennsylvania Democrat exposes the dangerous threat Republicans pose to the country One prominent candidate in Pennsylvania is making sure his opponent’s connections to violent extremism are an issue in the governor’s race there, setting a great example Democratic candidates—especially in swing states—should follow.
Josh Shapiro, the current state attorney general, is the Democratic nominee for governor and is committing more than $1 million to television ads in the state to expose Republican Doug Mastriano’s ties to Gab, the far-right social media network.
It is especially resonant for Pennsylvanians as the mass murderer who killed 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 posted his antisemitic hate on the Gab site. Mastriano paid Gab $5,000 for “consulting” services. He also was interviewed by Gab CEO Andrew Torba, and told Torba: “Thank God for what you’ve done.
”One of Shapiro’s ads describes Gab as a “white supremacist website” where “minutes before Jews were killed at this synagogue, the murderer posted his hate-filled plan,” and highlights Mastriano’s ties to the site.