Ms. Green was discussing campaign tactics and running through a litany of right-wing talking points with reporters when Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate Mr. Mastriano arrived on the scene. “The traditional Republican Party, the traditional ‘Republican Parties’ usually want to keep outsiders out, but we have to keep people coming in, successful people,” Ms Green said before a cheering crowd drew the attention of reporters. . One of the RSBN reporters broke away from Ms. Green and ran to try to catch Mr. Mastriano, calling him by name. “Oh,” Ms. Green said as reporters broke out and ran toward Mr. Mastriano. Ms. Green spoke later that night at the Wilkes-Barre rally, repeating Mr. Trump’s fraudulent claims that he was robbed of the 2020 election. “You want to know something else, Pennsylvania? President Trump won the 2020 election,” he said. “That’s right, we know President Trump won.” That claim has been debunked multiple times after multiple Republican-led polling efforts confirmed that Joe Biden won the election. Biden finally won Pennsylvania in 2020. Mr Mastriano also praised the former president – who has endorsed him in the state’s gubernatorial bid – calling him a “champion of 9/11”. The former president famously boasted after 9/11 that his building was the tallest tower in Manhattan when the Twin Towers fell his building was the tallest in the city. This statement was also incorrect. Trump, for his part, spent two hours talking about the FBI’s seizure of classified government documents from his Mar-a-Lago, Florida residence and repeatedly claiming he won the election. The former president falsely claimed that he “ran twice, won twice” and teased that “maybe he should just do it again,” although he has yet to officially announce his 2024 presidential bid.
