GETTYSBURG, Pa.—State Sen. Doug Mastriano, a leading Republican candidate for governor, recounted his long-running, unproven case for election fraud on Saturday.
Yet his claims were relatively mild compared to those of leading national election denier Mike Lindell, the My Pillow founder and another featured speaker.
Lindell repeatedly and falsely claimed the number of votes counted in the 2020 election in Pennsylvania exceeded the number of registered voters. Each time, he drew nothing but approving applause from the crowd of several hundred which nearly filled a conference room near Gettysburg.
For the record, Pennsylvania, with about 13 million people, had 9,090,962 registered voters at the time of the 2020 election, according to Ballotpedia. Pennsylvania voters cast 6,915,283 votes, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State.
Mastriano, the first speaker of the event, portrayed himself as the lone member of Pennsylvania’s Republican-controlled state Senate willing to fully pursue fraud claims.
He said “behind my back the swamp rose up” to thwart him, and lamented that he faces opposition from his Republican Senate colleagues in addition to Democrats and the news media.
Lindell, meanwhile, repeatedly accused even Fox News of being part of a corporate and media-driven conspiracy against investigating fraud claims, saying he had “evidence” of many thousands of votes stolen from former President Donald Trump even in Democrat-dominated states such as California.
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