Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) still refuses to endorse the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano, a supporter of former President Donald Trump’s election fraud claims.
At a campaign event for Dr. Mehmet Oz, the GOP nominee for the Senate seat Toomey will vacate when he retires in January, Toomey would not respond to questions about whether he’ll support Mastriano. He has been supportive of Oz, who is in a competitive and increasingly nasty contest with Democratic nominee Lt. Gov. John Fetterman.
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“I am supporting a number of House candidates that I think are in a very good position to win and will make great candidates,” Toomey said Wednesday morning when asked about endorsing Mastriano. “But I have a limit to how many political campaigns I’m getting involved in. I’m going to stick to the Senate race and a handful of House races.”
While Toomey voted to convict Trump during his second impeachment trial, Mastriano organized buses for people to attend the rally on Jan. 6, 2021, that devolved into the Capitol riot. Mastriano has also made election integrity one of his primary campaign points.
Toomey also refused to weigh in on the Republican running to head his home state in July, telling the Dispatch, “I don’t have anything to say about it.”
Oz is taking a measured approach to the 2020 election, saying at the same event that he would have voted to certify the results of the election if he had been in the Senate on Jan. 6 but would have voted to acquit Trump during the second impeachment trial.
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“By the time the delegates and those reports were sent to the U.S. Senate, our job was to approve it, which is what I would have done,” Oz said.
Mastriano and Oz have been endorsed by Trump, and both appeared with him at a rally last week. Mastriano sued the Jan. 6 select committee for compelling him to testify about the Jan. 6 riot.
