Pennsylvania Senate candidate’s decision to go low faces backlash from fellow Republicans

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PITTSBURGH — Pennsylvania politicos say that the personal attacks Jeff Bartos lobbed at rival Sean Parnell in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary race shows how important it is to get Donald Trump’s endorsement for office. Bartos’s failure to get it set off one of the dirtiest campaign smears in the state’s primary political history.

On Wednesday, Bartos attacked Parnell as “unelectable” because of temporary protective orders that were filed by his wife as their marriage began to crumble.

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