Less than two years removed from supposed widespread fraud that led to Joe Biden carrying Pennsylvania in the 2020 election, the state managed to conduct a perfectly clean election that saw state Sen. Doug Mastriano win the Republican governor's nomination and a tight affair for the GOP Senate nomination between TV doctor Mehmet Oz and wealthy businessman David McCormick.

I am, of course, kidding. There is no evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election -- in Pennsylvania or anywhere else. But it is striking that the same people who insisted, against all available evidence, that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump are now silent when the result is more to their liking.

It's almost as if the election deniers -- and I am just spitballing here -- were simply upset that their preferred candidate didn't win and so decided to cry foul.

He built a national reputation on his embrace of the "big lie" that the 2020 election was stolen from Trump.

Shortly after the election, Mastriano led a state Senate committee hearing that devolved into a pep rally for Trump conspiracy theorists. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was in attendance and the former President called in by phone to argue, falsely, that he won the election.

Mastriano continued to actively work to overturn the 2020 election results in Pennsylvania. He was not only in Washington on January 6, 2021, for the "Stop the Steal" rally, but used campaign funds to charter buses to the nation's capital that...

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