He didn't cuck, he made the right choice if he wants to win.
Mastriano was facing a major fundraising problem and today he received 8.5 million dollars of ad support from Pennsylvania Commonwealth partners who demanded he cut ties with Gab.
You can't win elections without any money. Josh Shapiro has 15 million dollars and Mastriano had less than 1 million when had ties with Gab.
I believe in freedom of speech and Doug Mastriano will do a better job protecting that freedom than that weasel Josh Shapiro.
Mastriano is playing the optics game right now because there are 550k more registered Dems than Republicans in Pennsylvania, to win he needs to get support from the independent voters.
Mastriano actually has a good chance of winning now and you are making it easier for Shapiro by focusing on his Gab account.
Andrew Torba has the worst optics, if you are associated with him, you will lose any general election. Mastriano is playing to win.
How does deleting his Gab account help? He's clearly doing it for optics. It doesn't change the fact that he had a Gab account. Was he wrong to have that account? Is he going to denounce Gab and apologize for associating with conservatives?
If he just cared about appearances the best course of action would be to simply stop posting on the Gab account, and if asked about it say "I keep social media accounts everywhere. It's a way to put my message out. I don't endorse any particular platform or their policies."
Where did openly supporting Torba come into the discussion? Am I openly supporting Zuck if I have a FB account?
I haven't followed the details of this story, but the only way this actually looks reasonable is if he said "Hey guys follow me on Truth Social, that will be my ONLY social media account going forward."
The reason people are paranoid about this is because we've been burned countless times by Republican politicians who don't live up to the hype. This particular incident is minor enough that, if I could vote in this election, I'd probably still turn out for it.
However, it is a borderline red flag. I'd save the outrage for him doing shitty things after being elected, though. If electoral politics is going to do anything of value, right-wing voters need to have a more adversarial relationship with our politicians and be ready to nuke their political careers when they start fagging out on policies.
I am pretty sure the one issue that Doug Mastriano will never cuck out on is election integrity.
His speeches during the stolen election literally won him the primary.
I wanted Barletta in the PA gov primaries because I thought Mastriano's campaign was too focused on 2020 stolen election but damn he won the primary and pivoted to also talk a lot more on inflation and crime.
Mastriano was one of the candidates who I thought cannot win in the beginning but he is running a good campaign in a must win state for us.
I pretty much never get pissed when someone attacks a politician but Mastriano is working his ass off to stop mail in ballots and we have our own guys mad about his comments about Gab. Priorities people.
They do not care about 'purity' for its own sake. They claim to care about 'purity' to try to pretend that they're better than the next guy. Same way the SJWs always claim to be more anti-racist than the next guy.
It's called being a bloody idiot, and not focusing on what actually matters.
Mastriano is very likely going to lose because he is too far to the right for Pennsylvania. It was a mistake to nominate him in the first place. But to say that he is not right-wing enough is the rankest of stupidity that you will be able to find.
He is trying to win the most important governor election this cycle.
He cannot let his name be associated with people like Andrew Torba.
Don't attack Doug Mastriano for increasing his chances of winning a difficult election.
Winning is more important than publicly supporting Torba. Trump never even made a Gab account because his clown son in law Kushner forbid him to. I don't see people hammering Trump for it.
Lay off attacking Doug Mastriano. We need him to win this race. This race is crucial to winning the 2024 Presidential race. Mastriano will end mass mail in balloting in PA while Shapiro has promised to expand it and have same day voter registration.
He didn't cuck, he made the right choice if he wants to win.
Mastriano was facing a major fundraising problem and today he received 8.5 million dollars of ad support from Pennsylvania Commonwealth partners who demanded he cut ties with Gab.
You can't win elections without any money. Josh Shapiro has 15 million dollars and Mastriano had less than 1 million when had ties with Gab.
I believe in freedom of speech and Doug Mastriano will do a better job protecting that freedom than that weasel Josh Shapiro.
Mastriano is playing the optics game right now because there are 550k more registered Dems than Republicans in Pennsylvania, to win he needs to get support from the independent voters.
Mastriano actually has a good chance of winning now and you are making it easier for Shapiro by focusing on his Gab account.
Andrew Torba has the worst optics, if you are associated with him, you will lose any general election. Mastriano is playing to win.
How does deleting his Gab account help? He's clearly doing it for optics. It doesn't change the fact that he had a Gab account. Was he wrong to have that account? Is he going to denounce Gab and apologize for associating with conservatives?
If he just cared about appearances the best course of action would be to simply stop posting on the Gab account, and if asked about it say "I keep social media accounts everywhere. It's a way to put my message out. I don't endorse any particular platform or their policies."
It hurts him actively.
He should never have made an account there in the first place.
You don't realize how difficult it is to win this race.
Mastriano has less money than Shapiro, the media is all in the tank for Shapiro and being tied to Torba is electoral poison.
I would say PA governorship is the most important single race in this election cycle.
I cannot believe our own guys are attacking Mastriano right now.
With allies like this, we will never win anything.
Mastriano is playing the optics game to win.
He cannot openly support Torba and win.
It is that simple.
Shapiro winning would be a disaster.
Do you want expansion of mail in ballots and same day voter registration? That is what Josh Shapiro has promised to implement.
If we want to end election fraud in PA, then you better hope that Mastriano wins this race.
Don't make it easier for Shapiro by attacking our guy!
It really pissed me off so much to see this post because I cannot believe our people are so short-sighted about electoral politics.
I'm not attacking Mastriano.
Where did openly supporting Torba come into the discussion? Am I openly supporting Zuck if I have a FB account?
I haven't followed the details of this story, but the only way this actually looks reasonable is if he said "Hey guys follow me on Truth Social, that will be my ONLY social media account going forward."
This is what his statement was
https://mobile.twitter.com/dougmastriano/status/1552764754262986753?cxt=HHwWgsC82aXUw4wrAAAA
Andrew Torba doesn't hide his power level about them.
Mastriano recently got 8.5 million from Pennsylvania Commonewealth Partners who wanted this to be said.
This needed to be done and the topic creator is attacking him for it.
I am not mad at you specifically. I am mad at everyone making this a big deal.
We need to win this race and people are caring about Torba of all people? Get the fuck out of here.
Ive noticed a lot of people who are vocal on kia2 care more about purity than winning.
Idiots.
You cannot govern with right wing values if you don't even win first.
I see right wing populists shoot themselves in the foot by going all in on meaningless shit like Gab.
Andrew Torba is an idiot because he says things out loud that the normies can't accept.
Being tied to him is poison and my fellow right wing populists cannot see this.
I am becoming increasingly more disillusioned with the right wing populist movement in the U.S.
We need to win first. Crying about condemning Gab and Andrew Torba is pointless.
We need the votes of atleast a few normies to win and we have populists thinking Trump's base is enough to win even swing states.
They don't understand basic electoral politics.
In other words hide your power level.
Yes you cannot win without hiding your power level.
The reason people are paranoid about this is because we've been burned countless times by Republican politicians who don't live up to the hype. This particular incident is minor enough that, if I could vote in this election, I'd probably still turn out for it.
However, it is a borderline red flag. I'd save the outrage for him doing shitty things after being elected, though. If electoral politics is going to do anything of value, right-wing voters need to have a more adversarial relationship with our politicians and be ready to nuke their political careers when they start fagging out on policies.
I am pretty sure the one issue that Doug Mastriano will never cuck out on is election integrity.
His speeches during the stolen election literally won him the primary.
I wanted Barletta in the PA gov primaries because I thought Mastriano's campaign was too focused on 2020 stolen election but damn he won the primary and pivoted to also talk a lot more on inflation and crime.
Mastriano was one of the candidates who I thought cannot win in the beginning but he is running a good campaign in a must win state for us.
I pretty much never get pissed when someone attacks a politician but Mastriano is working his ass off to stop mail in ballots and we have our own guys mad about his comments about Gab. Priorities people.
They do not care about 'purity' for its own sake. They claim to care about 'purity' to try to pretend that they're better than the next guy. Same way the SJWs always claim to be more anti-racist than the next guy.
No it's called not accepting the continued weakness of conservatives
It's called being a bloody idiot, and not focusing on what actually matters.
Mastriano is very likely going to lose because he is too far to the right for Pennsylvania. It was a mistake to nominate him in the first place. But to say that he is not right-wing enough is the rankest of stupidity that you will be able to find.
He is trying to win the most important governor election this cycle.
He cannot let his name be associated with people like Andrew Torba.
Don't attack Doug Mastriano for increasing his chances of winning a difficult election.
Winning is more important than publicly supporting Torba. Trump never even made a Gab account because his clown son in law Kushner forbid him to. I don't see people hammering Trump for it.
Lay off attacking Doug Mastriano. We need him to win this race. This race is crucial to winning the 2024 Presidential race. Mastriano will end mass mail in balloting in PA while Shapiro has promised to expand it and have same day voter registration.
Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good.