Live from Virginia Tuesday morning on The John Fredericks Show – weekdays on WNTW AM 820/ FM 92.7 – Richmond, WJFN FM 100.5 – Central Virginia; WMPH AM 1010 / FM 100.1 / FM 96.9 (7-9 p.m.) Hampton Roads; WBRG AM 1050 / FM 105.1 – Lynchburg/Roanoke and weekdays 6-10 a.m. and 24/7 stream – host Fredericks welcomed Pennsylvania state Senator and candidate for governor Doug Mastriano to talk about how he’ll fight for election integrity.
Fredericks: Doug Mastriano, running for governor in Pennsylvania. Now, this is going to be decided in a primary on May 17th. We’ve also endorsed Mastriano. Now, this is the interesting thing. It’s another thing I did. Everybody told me I was crazy, that he couldn’t win.
And this one and that one and Jake the Snake and all these people, right. And they’re all running. I like Lou, he’s a friend of mine. It’s all good. But they all tell me Mastriano can’t win. This and that.
Here we are, April 12th and he’s still hitting the pulse. I don’t know how he does it. It must be magic. Doug Mastriano joining us now, Senator Mastriano, thank you for being with us. Tell us about your campaign in Pennsylvania.
Mastriano: (Chuckles) Definitely not magic. Mostly hard work and standing with the people with the shutdowns. Thanks for having me on. It’s just so mundane to stand on the stage from time to time there in these many debates with the other candidates, and I hear these empty promises.
When I’m governor, I promise, I pledge, I will. And all I can do is stand there and say, what have you done? And where’ve you been the past two years when the state was shut down?
And I think so much has changed. And conventional wisdom would be that Jake the Snake should dominate. In fact, he said in November this announcement that when he entered the race that he was going to clear the field. Well, that didn’t happen.
He didn’t even qualify. There’s a debate coming up next week. I think you have to get at least five percent in two polls in either poll, and he didn’t make it. He’s not going to be on the stage.
Fredericks: It’s amazing that all the people that told me that you had no chance and you couldn’t win. And now here you are. We’re like five weeks out.
Mastriano: Yes.
Fredericks: And you’re still either headed or tied in the majority of polls out there. But look, Pennsylvania has been identified by True the Vote as the worst state in America for ballot harvesting, for all the shenanigans that have gone on.
You were the first one to fight it. You’re the one that had the Gettysburg hearings. You had Giuliani there. You had everybody there trying to get to the bottom of this November 3.
You led that, then they got mad at you, then they fired your staff, then they stripped you of all your committees because you’re trying to get to the truth. If you’re governor, how are we going to straighten out this mess?
Mastriano: Yes. And just to add something to that before I answer your question. We had a hearing yesterday and last week from an investigative journalist out of the Philly area and he gave us all this evidence of the Zuck Bucks and what have you, the millions of dollars that came in to influence the election.
We have the statistics here that these left-leaning or very leftist groups, like they donated per capita Republican counties, $0.59. So this is outside money coming in to help us run the Election 2020, which we just passed the bill yesterday actually to ban that.
$0.60 per capita for Trump counties, $3 per capita for Democratic counties, five times more money. And come to find out with this Zuck Bucks money that came in to help us with the election … ‘help us.’
It was used to hire, actually, Democrat operatives. So it was a Democrat get-out-the-vote move, rather. So they influenced it and undermined our election.
It’s that bad. But okay, as governor, to answer your question straight up, I tried as a legislator to get this squared away and hit a wall with my own party, with elements of my party.
Anyway, I get to a point, the Secretary of State, in most states they’re elected, but the Secretary of State in Pennsylvania oversees the elections.
And so that gives me the authority to decertify machines, all machines, some machines. It gives me the authority to inspect election books, maybe even to restart registering for elections, and what have you.
We have so many problems in Pennsylvania. And so I already have a team picked out, and I also have a Secretary of State picked out, which I haven’t announced yet who it is.
These people are like the rock stars in the United States and Pennsylvania’s voting integrity. So we can really shake it up quite a bit.
Fredericks: So you’re really going to try to get things done, not just lip service. The problem with some of these other guys is they all talk about it, but when they had a chance to do something, they did nothing.
Mastriano: Yes, that’s a selling point, especially with the president pro-temper running for governor. If he really wanted to have a forensic investigation vis-à-vis Arizona style, which I was trying to do, it would have been done.
And had he left us alone, I would have had it done I think by November, understanding it may have been a lawsuit from little Josh Shapiro, our attorney general, and he’ll be my competitor for the general election.
It would have been done. It’s not that hard. My position, John, and we talked about that, if you got nothing to hide, just open up the dang books and then go ahead and say “hey, Mastriano, we told you it was a waste of time and money.” But it’s clear the Democrats are hiding something because every time we turn over rocks there’s more dirt coming out.
Fredericks: So what do you think of … this is kind of interesting. So the mayor of Philadelphia yesterday institutes another mask mandate, indoor for Philadelphia. We expect this is going to be the first one, mail-in ballot.
You can’t choose between voting and dying. Then it’s going to go to Atlanta, New York, Milwaukee, all the swing states. However, your likely opponent if you are the nominee, the Democratic nominee likely Josh Shapiro, AG, says he’s opposed to the mandate.
He says that they are counterproductive, they don’t do anything, and that people are done with them. What is your reaction to that?
Mastriano: My reaction was to prove it, Josh. You’re just saying that, Josh, because there’s an election coming up and like all the other Democrats who suddenly start sounding a little bit like us, you have a little empathy for us.
But for two years, little Josh was standing with the Wolf instead of going after his failed policies or Levine’s policy that led to 16,000 of our elderly dying because he sent the sick back into the homes. Josh was suing nuns.
And so, Josh, you’re all talk, and he’s done nothing but stand aside and support Democrat policies. So all he cares about is winning the election. He doesn’t care about the people of Pennsylvania.
– – –
