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Here’s what Doug Mastriano said – and didn’t say – in his concession speech – Pennsylvania Capital-Star appeared on www.penncapital-star.com by Pennsylvania Capital-Star.
By Justin Sweitzer
Doug Mastriano, the Donald Trump-backed conservative state senator who was this year’s Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, finally put questions to bed about whether he will concede.
In a Facebook Live video on Sunday night, Mastriano and his wife, Rebbie, thanked supporters for backing the campaign during this year’s election cycle, and officially accepted defeat, telling viewers that his opponent, Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro, will be the state’s next governor.
“As difficult as it is to accept the results, there is no other course but to concede, which I do, and I look to the challenges ahead,” Mastriano said during the livestream. “Josh Shapiro will be our next governor and I ask everyone to give him the opportunity, and to pray that he makes the decisions that are beneficial for the state and not necessarily for his party that he leads well – because it affects all our lives.”
A concession from @dougmastriano:
— ByJohnLMicek (@ByJohnLMicek) November 13, 2022
Shapiro, the state’s Democratic nominee, was declared the winner on election night by a series of media outlets, including The Associated Press, Fox News and NBC News, among others.
Unofficial results from the Pennsylvania Department of State show Shapiro with a 14-point lead over Mastriano, with Shapiro notching 56 percent of the vote, compared to Mastriano’s 42 percent.
Shapiro claims victory in Pa. governor’s race; Mastriano says he’ll ‘respect’ what voters say
Mastriano’s willingness to accept the results was called into question after he embraced false claims about the results of the 2020 presidential election. He also spearheaded efforts to audit those election results using an obscure legislative committee, but was ultimately stripped of the committee chairmanship after feuding with state Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman.
Mastriano has also drawn the focus of the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which subpoenaed Mastriano for information about a plan to send an alternate slate of presidential electors to Washington, D.C., as well for information about his presence on the U.S. Capitol grounds that day.
Here’s a clip of Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano’s concession, which came Sunday night in a Facebook Live stream. pic.twitter.com/GOEerr4zJn
— Justin Sweitzer (@justin_sweitzer) November 14, 2022
Despite his past history surrounding elections, on election night, speaking from his campaign’s watch party in Camp Hill, Mastriano signaled that while he would wait for all results to be counted, he would accept the results. “What the people of Pennsylvania say, we will, of course, respect that,” he told supporters.
A spokesperson for Shapiro said Monday that Mastriano has not contacted or called Shapiro.
Mastriano did hint that he has another announcement coming in the near future centered around the grassroots base that propelled him to run for governor.
In his concession speech, Mastriano also said the state is in need of election reforms. He didn’t say what specific reforms he thinks are needed, but Mastriano supported the elimination of mail-in ballots and the implementation of a universal voter ID requirement during the election cycle.
Justin Sweitzer is a reporter for City & State Pa., where this story first appeared.
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