Doug Mastriano Agrees that He Must Pick the Secretary of State for Trump to Win In 2024

Not a lot of nuance there. Mastriano gets to pick the person who counts the ballots and certifies the election, and it goes through Pennsylvania, as he said. One would have to ignore the entire context of 2020-2022 not to understand what’s happening here. The MAGAs are more than willing to abandon all pretense of true legitimate elections if necessary as an increasingly minority party. The good news is that in a lot of elections over the past year, from Alaska to Kansas, even in Boise ID (School District), we’ve seen the public consistently reject the ultra-MAGA agenda at surprisingly high voting levels. Whereas the assumption was that “Roevember” would energize people to get out to the polls, it might be the threat posed by people like Mastriano that is the bigger motivating factor, and rightly so. We don’t want to live in a country where the person someone like Mastriano picks as secretary of state determines the national presidential election.