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President Donald Trump\u2019s team is worried it has a Doug Mastriano problem on its hands.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s advisers privately fear the far-right firebrand could cost Republicans the elusive Pennsylvania governor\u2019s seat and, were he to win the nomination, drag down the GOP ticket in the midterms next year, four Republicans familiar with their thinking said. Each was granted anonymity to speak frankly as they monitor the battleground race and consider their next moves.<\/p>\n

Republicans blame Mastriano for costing the party a Senate contest, multiple House seats and a state legislative chamber in 2022 when he lost by 15 points in Pennsylvania\u2019s gubernatorial race. Now he\u2019s teasing a comeback bid against Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro. With as many as four GOP-held House seats in play in the state, Republicans believe Mastriano\u2019s name atop the ballot would threaten their chances of keeping their slim majority in the lower chamber.<\/p>\n

A person close to Trump\u2019s political operation \u2014 one of the four aforementioned Republicans \u2014 described the president\u2019s team as \u201cvery concerned\u201d that a Mastriano campaign \u201ccould jeopardize or add to the jeopardization of multiple down-ballot congressional races.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania Republicans went even further, saying a Mastriano candidacy would all but certainly unleash a bloodbath across the state next November.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he\u2019s our nominee, we lose four House seats,\u201d Pennsylvania-based GOP consultant Josh Novotney said. \u201cHe\u2019s a nightmare that no one wants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked for comment, Mastriano said POLITICO is \u201cnot letting facts getting [sic] in the way of a good story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can tell you that I have President Trump\u2019s direct line,\u201d he said in a direct message on X. \u201cAnd he ain\u2019t saying this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite perennially alarming Republican leaders, Mastriano, a state senator, still appears to have a grip on MAGA voters. A private Public Policy Polling survey conducted in May and obtained by POLITICO shows him leading state Treasurer Stacy Garrity, a likely candidate favored by much of the party establishment, by 21 points.<\/p>\n

His perceived strength is springing national and Pennsylvania Republicans into action.<\/p>\n

Some state GOP operatives said they hope Trump will back Garrity in a bid to block Mastriano. For now his plans for Pennsylvania\u2019s nascent gubernatorial primary are unclear, particularly since Shapiro is widely seen as the favorite in the general election. Even if Garrity wins the nomination, several state and national Republicans expressed pessimism that anyone can defeat the incumbent, though they believe Garrity would outperform Mastriano.<\/p>\n

But Trump is intently focused on maintaining GOP control of Congress and has gone to great lengths to steer candidates in next year\u2019s House and Senate races<\/u><\/a>, in order to prevent messy primaries and rally the party behind strong contenders. He has directed some candidates to run for reelection and others to stay out of races, while pushing Texas Republicans to redraw their congressional maps in the hunt for more GOP-friendly seats.<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt did not reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

A Pennsylvania Republican strategist familiar with the White House\u2019s thinking said the Trump team\u2019s view on Garrity is \u201clook, maybe she doesn\u2019t win, but she\u2019s going to run a really solid race and it\u2019ll help us down-ballot \u2014 we can\u2019t get blown out at the top of the ticket and Stacy is a good campaigner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania GOP leaders are also quietly making plans to quickly unite around Garrity when she launches her campaign in the coming weeks, in an effort to learn from their devastating losses in 2022, said multiple Republicans.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Mastriano built a devoted following over the years by leading the charge in Pennsylvania to overturn the 2020 election results and unapologetically opposing abortion with no exceptions. He has also cultivated his fan base on social media<\/u><\/a>, including through Facebook livestreams.<\/p>\n

But Mastriano\u2019s hardline political brand, underscored by his appearance at the capitol on the day of the Jan. 6 attack, has turned off swing voters and independents.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a nice guy, veteran, great for his district,\u201d said David Urban, a former senior Trump adviser who helped lead the president\u2019s 2016 campaign in Pennsylvania. \u201cHe just doesn\u2019t have statewide appeal and that will be a big problem for the down-ballot races across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a recent talk radio interview<\/u><\/a>, Mastriano said he\u2019s \u201cin effect\u201d launched an exploratory committee for next year\u2019s gubernatorial race, adding, \u201cwe have our team in all 67 counties still standing by.\u201d He did not respond to a request for an interview.<\/p>\n

Trump offered his support<\/u><\/a> to Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.) when he was weighing a run for governor that he opted against this month. In the Public Policy Polling survey, which quizzed 433 likely Republican primary voters, Garrity received 18 percent and Meuser came in third place with 6 percent.<\/p>\n

Trump endorsed Mastriano in the 2022 primary, but came to regret that decision<\/u><\/a>. Mastriano raised little money and aired virtually no television ads, an unheard-of approach by a major-party nominee in a top swing state.<\/p>\n

Trump privately worried that Mastriano might jump into the race for Senate<\/u><\/a> in 2024 and hurt his own presidential campaign; Mastriano declined to run and instead endorsed the party-backed Dave McCormick, who courted Mastriano\u2019s support<\/u><\/a> early and went on to defeat then-incumbent Sen. Bob Casey that fall.<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania Republicans are now looking to recreate their success in the 2024 election, which they partly attribute to the state party backing its preferred primary candidates after declining to endorse anyone in the 2022 gubernatorial nominating contest<\/u><\/a>. The state GOP hopes to back a challenger to Shapiro in September<\/u><\/a>, and several Republicans said they expect Garrity will be the pick. Scott Martin, a GOP state senator, did not rule out a run when speaking with a reporter earlier this year<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Garrity supporters are projecting confidence she\u2019d defeat Mastriano given her close ties to the conservative grassroots movement and biography as a veteran and business leader. Some also expressed doubt that Mastriano would ultimately launch a gubernatorial bid.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepublican primary voters are very much going to want to beat Shapiro,\u201d GOP strategist and Garrity adviser John Brabender said. \u201cPeople are smart, they want to win, they want to beat this governor, and it\u2019s going to be clear to them they have a candidate of substance. And I think there will be an incredible unifying around Stacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mastriano has signaled he is bracing for the GOP establishment to line up behind another Republican to stop him.<\/p>\n

In the News Talk 103.7 FM interview this week, he said the state GOP may be eager to \u201cclear the field\u201d in the gubernatorial primary. But, he warned, \u201cthey\u2019re not going to clear the field of me.\u201d He said that \u201cwe played the game over the past couple years\u201d \u2014 an apparent reference to backing McCormick for Senate instead of running himself \u2014 and \u201cnow we want something out of it, and that will probably be, perhaps, my candidacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an echo of the 2022 midterm elections, when Democrats meddled in GOP primaries across the country in order to pad their chances in the general election, some on the left are openly encouraging Mastriano to jump into the gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n

\u201cMastriano was literally the single worst Republican candidate for governor in the nation in 2022,\u201d said Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) in a text. \u201cSo I\u2019m very much hoping he runs again!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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