DOUG MASTRIANO

Josh Shapiro will be taking office as Pennsylvania’s next governor in January after running a campaign in which he spoke early and often about his Jewish religious heritage.

Voters with no religious affiliation supported Democratic candidates and abortion rights by staggering percentages in the 2022 midterm elections.

Bad candidates cost the GOP key races and quite possibly the Senate. Here are the ones who hurt the party the most.

Right-wing attorney Jenna Ellis, who has a history of anti-LGBTQ bigotry, suggested the victims were suffering in hell.

Voters deciding to split their tickets or buck their party altogether may have helped Democrats mount a stronger-than-expected performance in the recent midterm elections.

The results prompted Michigan’s secretary of state to predict that democracy will emerge stronger than it was before former president Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 vote

Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro is beginning the transition to his new job, pledging to work constructively with lawmakers and pledging to remain as attorney general until he takes office as governor in January.

President Joe Biden tried to shape the midterm elections not as a verdict on his time in office, but rather on the contrast between Democrats and Republicans on American democracy.

Republican Blake Masters called Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly to concede in the Arizona Senate race.

Democratic Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro will take office with a decisive mandate from Pennsylvania voters, who overwhelmingly rejected a Republican drive to pare back abortion rights and voting laws in the premier battleground state.

"Voters called out crazy," a former Republican congressman said of the midterm elections.

There was no violence in the midterm elections last week, and many election deniers lost and quietly conceded.

Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R) conceded to Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro (D) on Sunday in the state’s gubernatorial race, five days after news outlets called the race against him. “Difficult to accept as the results are, there is no right course but to concede, which I do, and I look to the challenges ahead. Josh…

Evangelical Christians across the U.S. reconfirmed their allegiance to conservative candidates and causes in the midterm elections.

CNNSen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), who will be replaced in Congress come January by Democrat John Fetterman, admitted Thursday that former President Donald Trump was not a positive influence on the Republican ticket in Pennsylvania — which saw far-right gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano lose in addition to Mehmet Oz.In a CNN interview, the retiring senator began by criticizing the effect of Mastriano’s campaign on down-ballot races. “We had an ultra-MAGA candidate who never appeared to even attempt

This week’s ballot had an unspoken candidate — American democracy.

Two days after the midterm elections, misinformation about the results remains focused on Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Democrats' strategy of meddling in Republican primaries in order to boost their preferred general election candidate appears to have paid off.

If Tuesday’s vote defied the durable history of presidential parties taking heavy losses in a midterm election, it also reinforced an often-forgotten fact: These campaigns are a patchwork of thousands of races, not a nationwide contest.

Election deniers who backed Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election failed in some of their highest-profile races.

A day after the midterm elections, misinformation about the results is zeroing in on the states of Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Facing tremendous political headwinds, the Democrats fought Republicans to a stunning midterm draw.

Republicans inched closer to a narrow House majority while control of the Senate hinges on tight Arizona, Nevada and Georgia races.

Votes are still being counted in key races, but it’s clear that Republicans are paying a price for selecting poor candidates.

Their victories reflected the lack of a penalty for Republican politicians who stuck with former president Donald Trump after he sought to overturn the 2020 result.

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro wins Pennsylvania race for governor beating Trump-backed Republican Doug Mastriano.

Voters cast ballots for governors in 36 states on Tuesday, with 20 held by Republicans and 16 held by Democrats.

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Democrat Josh Shapiro won his bid for governor of Pennsylvania over Republican Doug Mastriano.

Election machine mishaps and delays in vote counting became the latest fodder for political misinformation on Election Day.

Republicans who backed Donald Trump’s failed efforts to overturn the 2020 election have lost key races to oversee elections in some competitive states.

American voters are fractured politically and culturally ahead of Election Day, and they are anxious about where their country is heading — on inflation, abortion, immigration, crime, and much more.

All 50 states are hosting midterm elections that will determine the balance of power in Washington and state capitals across the nation.

Mr. Biden will head to Westchester County, New York, while Trump is in Miami.

U.S. faith leaders have squeezed in some final messages about the midterm elections during their weekend worship services.

In front of thousands of fans, the ex-president predicted GOP victories in Tuesday's election — and teased his all-but-certain campaign to regain the White House.

The extraordinary convergence of the current president and his two predecessors highlights the broad implications of Pennsylvania this year and beyond.

Figures like corporate-marketer-turned-prophet Lance Wallnau have been appearing with candidates all over the country this year, preaching spiritual warfare.

The Democratic Party’s most powerful voices are warning that abortion, Social Security and democracy itself are at risk as they labor to overcome fierce political headwinds over the final weekend of the 2022 campaign.

GOP candidates center education argument around a set of culture war issues including criticizing transgender rights and the “indoctrination” of schoolchildren.

A Canadian university that granted a doctorate in history to Doug Mastriano nearly a decade before he became the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania is investigating a fresh complaint about his work that makes multiple allegations of academic fraud in his recently public dissertation. University of New Brunswick President Paul Mazerolle told The Associated Press in a phone interview Saturday that the school is also bringing in a team of outsiders to review its policies and procedures for graduate study, including issues raised by how Mastriano's research was handled and evaluated.

Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, appears in a little-noticed film that some scholars say distorts the Holocaust to promote a conservative agenda.

A series of bigoted comments from GOP candidates’ associates or supporters have raised alarms among many Democrats and Jewish advocacy groups.

The backlash against pandemic restrictions has become a more potent talking point than the public-health crisis itself.

In the state’s midterms—which could determine the balance of the Senate and the integrity of the Presidential race in 2024—Democrats are fighting for the vote. Republicans are fighting to undermine it.

Abortion access in several states could hinge on the outcome of November elections of lawmakers, governors, supreme court justices and attorneys general.

Republicans have political winds at their back, but the party's nominees in Pennsylvania for governor and Senate are running dramatically different campaigns and targeting two very different types of voters.

An energized President Joe Biden returned Friday to the Keystone State, his 15th visit since he took office, this time to attend a fundraiser with Vice President Kamala Harris and other leaders to boost Democratic Senate nominee John Fetterman.

A drag queen story time at a Maryland library near Columbia, Md. has enraged parents according to Manhattan Institute fellow Christopher Rufo.

In one of the most closely watched races in one of the most contested battleground states, both candidates for governor in Pennsylvania bring religion into their campaigns.

A Philadelphia parent expressed concern after receiving word that a first-grade class soon would be participating in a drag queen story hour, sparking a debate.

A new sense of uncertainty has risen over Pennsylvania’s pivotal Senate contest.

Josh Shapiro is well liked, while Doug Mastriano is viewed as extreme.

Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman struggled at times to explain his positions and spoke haltingly throughout a highly anticipated debate against Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz as they vie for a critical U.S. Senate seat.

A new poll indicates that Democrats have a slight lead over Republicans in the Michigan and Pennsylvania gubernatorial races but the results are too close to call in Wisconsin.

Entertainment, election falsehoods and religious views merge as Trump supporters try to boost Republican turnout in November.

Such voters have been in decline for years as the country has grown ever more polarized. But they could be pivotal this year in key battlegrounds.

Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano, R-Chambersburg/Gettysburg, sounded off on his gubernatorial race against Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro.

As the campaign trail heats up in the final weeks before November’s midterm elections, so have more overt appeals to racial animus and resentment.

"He believes that they all should resign," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.

Trafalgar Group's Robert Cahaly weighs in on the Pennsylvania Senate race between Dr. Mehmet Oz and Lt. Gov. John Fetterman on "Life, Liberty & Levin."

Both right-wing media and divided party leadership are to blame.

“People are angry they can’t be terrible anymore.”

A raft of polls in battleground states shows potential governor-Senate splits that seem to map to perceptions of candidate quality.

Shapiro's massive cash haul brings the candidate's fundraising total this cycle to more than $50 million — the most of any gubernatorial candidate in the state ever.

Doug Mastriano, Trump-backed nominee for Pennsylvania governor, said in 2019 violators of his proposed 10-week abortion ban should be charged with murder.

According to the media, many of the ultra-conservative candidates who won their nominations with Donald Trump’s backing are in deep trouble but they could still win.

In a livestream of the pursuit, the off-duty officer slammed US immigration policy and referenced DeSantis' sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard.

With 6 weeks to go until Election Day, a new poll in the key battleground of Pennsylvania indicates Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman ahead of GOP nominee Mehmet Oz in the Senate race

The January 6 hearings have given new insight and information on the Capitol insurrection, helping to construct a timeline of the day's events.

In one of the most politically competitive states in the U.S., the Democratic contender for Pennsylvania governor is waging a comparatively low-key campaign.

Pennsylvania's Chamber of Commerce debate set for October 3 has been upended after Mastriano proposed both campaigns chose moderators for debate, a request Shapiro would not agree to.

Donald Trump, the Trump Organization, and others are accused in a major new lawsuit of widespread fraud involving allegeldy false financial statements.

Of the 19 GOP candidates questioned by The Washington Post, a dozen declined to answer or refused to commit. Democrats overwhelmingly said they would respect the results

Doug Mastriano prayed Congress would "rise up with boldness" on the 6th of January in a December 2020 Zoom call published by Rolling Stone.

Doug Mastriano prayed Congress would "rise up with boldness" on the 6th of January in a December 2020 Zoom call published by Rolling Stone.

Doug Mastriano is trying to find out.

A Canadian university has quietly made public Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano's 2013 doctoral thesis about a legendary World War I hero, including six pages of recently added corrections that, in some cases, do not appear to fix anything. Researchers who have long criticized Mastriano's investigation into U.S. Army Sgt. Alvin C. York as plagued by factual errors, amateurish archaeology and sloppy writing say the dissertation, released last month by the University of New Brunswick, echoes the problems in his 2014 book based on the same research. Mastriano won the Republican primary in May thanks, in part, to a late endorsement by former President Donald Trump.

An Associated Press review has found that nearly 1 in 3 Republican candidates for statewide offices that play a role in overseeing, certifying or defending elections supported overturning the 2020 presidential election.

Former Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Charlie Dent on Saturday said former President Trump’s speech at a rally on Saturday night in the Keystone State was a “major gift” for Democrats. “Most Republican candidates don’t want anything to do with Donald Trump in this general election. They want this to be about Joe Biden and the Democrats,…

It's Donald Trump's first rally of the general election season, a Saturday night event in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with Republican candidates in the pivotal state.

Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor is suing the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, contesting its legal ability to force him to answer questions about it.

Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano posed in a Confederate uniform for a faculty photo at the Army War College, three years before he retired from the U.S. Army.

Pennsylvania’s Republican governor nominee Doug Mastriano has appeared briefly before the Jan. 6 committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection.

Republicans are warming up to the Republican nominee for governor in Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano.

The fate of the Democratic Party is intertwined in a pair of Pennsylvania elections that’ll be closely watched this year.

Dozens of Republican candidates who sought Donald Trump’s endorsement have spent months parroting the former president's baseless claims of 2020 election fraud.

The Pennsylvania Republican nominee for governor who's pushed Donald Trump's election lies has appointed Trump's former campaign lawyer as a senior legal adviser to his campaign.

Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor, Doug Mastriano, has offered to sit for a voluntary interview with the congressional committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection.

If Republican Doug Mastriano is elected governor of Pennsylvania, the state could become a test case for his idea to wipe its voter rolls clean and make everyone re-register if they want to vote again.

A movement known as Christian nationalism is making its presence known in many Republican primary races this year.

Doug Mastriano is not the only candidate who won a Republican primary on Tuesday after embracing former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen.

Former President Donald Trump’s influence was enough to elevate his Senate candidate to victory in North Carolina on Tuesday.

Former U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador has won Idaho’s Republican attorney general primary, beating a longtime incumbent who'd been criticized by the far right for not taking a more activist role.

Donald Trump’s choice for Pennsylvania governor has won his primary, and his Senate pick is locked in an exceedingly close contest as the former president works to expand his hold on the Republican Party.

Doug Mastriano has won the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania.

A Republican candidate for Pennsylvania governor says he is ending his campaign and endorsing rival Lou Barletta.

With six days until Pennsylvania’s primary, Republicans are openly worrying that a leading candidate in the crowded GOP field running for governor is unelectable in the fall general election.

The fight for Congress often dominates midterm elections.

In the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where former President Donald Trump lost by 80,000 votes eight months ago, his false claims of a stolen election are finding new signs of life.