full-throated embrace of the big lie of the his efforts to steal the election for donald trump were knot nothing short exhaustive. he was in regular communication with trump after the election and led the charge to create a slate of so-called alternate electors. mastiono attended the rally on january 6th and spent thousands of state senate campaign dollars to busing true believers for the event. he s been subpoenaed by the house january 6th committee over his involvement with the fake elector scheme. in short, he s a full-barone coup-supporting threat to democracy running for governor of the keystone state where the governor appoints the secretary of state meaning that he could set up a nightmare scenario in 2024. mastiano s hand picked secretary of state could just toss out as many votes as are necessary to hand the election to trump or desantis or whoever the republican nominee, is even if they lose the involvement after all, we learned this week that trump lawyer john east
out thousand of absentee votes to create new math. pennsylvania republicans are also in caniption in the senate race. kathy barnette, a self-professed ultra mager, who has risen in the polls fueled by her compelling personal story of being born in rural alabama in extreme poverty to a mother who was 11 years old and a victim of it rape. she s upending the race with tv doctor mehmet order and david mccormick who has tried to play up his maga bona fide with america first canned day. republicans are worried about her electability because she has an electronic trail of hideous tweets targeting lgbtk and
saying that there really is synthetic racism and worrying about her son getting in confrontation with a police. that s what she would pay for. the rest of it, they don t care. want you to comment on that and comment a little bit on georgia, too, because you do see the norm core part of the republican party trying to weigh in in some of these states in georgia you do see even mike pence daring to defy trump and back brian kemp and some others jumping in there trying to say they want to keep kemp there because he s the least extreme of the choices, but they they don t have control of the base of the party, do they? the only thing that republicans are likely to pay for is something like kate barnette s views on race. that s the thing that she would pay for. exactly right, joy, but let me go back to a point you were raising earlier which i think is each more frightening. this idea that they are cherry picking and cultivating candidates of color in the case of georgia. we see it happeni
eastern right here on msnbc. that does it for me. can you catch me on american voices weekends at 6:00 p.m. eastern, like tomorrow. the reidout with joy reid is up next. e tomorrow the reidout with joy reid is up next. good evening, everyone. we begin the reidout tonight with the threat to our democracy which runs right through the state of pennsylvania. this was the scene in the wee hours of the morning on january 7, 2021, hours after the attempted insurrection as 138 house republicans still voted to toss out pennsylvania s electoral votes. they failed, but now we are just days from the prospect that they could succeed in a different way. republican voters in the keystone state appear poised to nominate two of the most extreme candidates in the country in race for governor and senate. running for governor doug mastiano, the state senator who has risen to the top of the crowded field. his campaign fueled by his
different direction. you know, the irony is doing this, you know, you ve seen republicans lean into trying to find black maga people as much as they can. they have done that in georgia, you know. kathy barnette offers up the same thing. she s extremely anti-abortion and super maga as she has said, but all of the stuff in her background seems to make her kind of targetable, you know, if pennsylvania voters, you know, are kind of swingy want somebody who isn t a complete radical and this is a pickup opportunity for democrats, so give me the kind of view from the other side because it s not like the democratic candidates are without flaws. i mean, right now the candidate who is in front, john fennerman, he s got issues, too. there was a 2013 incident where he allegedly pulled a gun on a black jogger that. sounds a lot like that horrible case that happened in jaffe. he was called upon to apologize by malcolm kenyatta, a state rep also running in that race. he didn t. it s like you don t