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Doug Mastriano, the Republican candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, has apparently been deleting videos from his campaign's Facebook page.
Mastriano, a state senator who backed Donald Trump's false claims of voter fraud in 2020 and the effort to overturn the presidential election, won the Republican primary for governor in May.
Weeks before his victory, Mastriano appeared in a video weighing in on the issue of global warming and reportedly calling it "pop science."
That video has vanished, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, which reports that more than a dozen other clips have been removed from the page in the last three months.
"Let's talk about climate change. They're hellbent on this theory — it's a theory, it's not a fact," Mastriano says in the deleted clip. "Heck, the weatherman can't get the weather right, you know, 24 hours out. … Al Gore said we were doomed by 2012, that cities would be overrun by melting glaciers."
Mastriano, a retired Army colonel, also complained in a now deleted video post that fellow Republicans opposed to his campaign represent a "corrupt" establishment wing of the party that holds "disdain" for veterans like him.
"They can talk about policies, but why do they have to attack me as a person and say the things they do? Because they have this disdain and hate for veterans," Mastriano said, according to the Inquirer. "If they really respected veterans — they can disagree on policy, no problem. They can...
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