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Doug Mastriano’s Facebook account is an ‘active administrator’ for a ‘xenophobic, antisemitic’ group: report
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In Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race, the Democratic nominee, State Attorney General Josh Shapiro, and his supporters have run countless ads slamming GOP nominee Doug Mastriano as a dangerous, unhinged extremist. And it isn’t hard to do: Mastriano is a far-right conspiracy theorist who holds severe Christian nationalist views, embraces QAnon, believes that women who have abortions should face murder charges, falsely claims the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, and associates with white nationalists and antisemites.
Mastriano’s willingness to associate with extremists has received a great deal of media scrutiny. But one association that hasn’t been reported until now is the Mastriano campaign’s connection to a fringe Facebook group called Mastriano’s Memes.
Journalist Roger Sollenberger, in an article published by the Daily Beast on November 1, reports, “Republican Pennsylvania governor candidate Doug Mastriano’s official campaign Facebook account is also helping with another group on the social media site: a Facebook group which has, for months, featured a stream of xenophobic, transphobic, and antisemitic memes. The campaign’s role in the public group — called ‘Mastriano Memes’ — has not been previously reported, but Mastriano’s official Facebook account was still an active administrator for the page as of Monday evening, (October 31).”
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Sollenberger is the reporter who, in early October, broke the bombshell that MAGA Republican Herschel Walker — the U.S. Senate candidate and anti-abortion hardliner who is trying to unseat Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock in Georgia’s 2022 U.S. Senate race — impregnated a girlfriend back in 2009 and paid for her to have an abortion. Walker has vehemently denied that allegation, although the Beast has stood by Sollenberger’s reporting.
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