“He’s a nut bag,” said Neil Oxman, a veteran Democratic ad maker based in Pennsylvania.
Melissa Hart, a former congresswoman from Pennsylvania who dropped out of the state’s Republican gubernatorial primary days before the election, said Mastriano “comes across as a cult guy.”
“He has some rhetoric where you expect people to start holding hands and running towards the cliff,” said Daniel Fee, a longtime Democratic strategist in the state. “I think he will disqualify himself.”…
One prominent Republican in Pennsylvania described post-primary conversations among donors who fear Mastriano may collapse so quickly in the general election that Democrats will be able to redirect money from the governor’s race to down-ballot contests, lifting otherwise vulnerable Democrats in state legislative races.
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