May 18, 2022: Takeaways from the biggest primary night of the year

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🗓️ 18 May 2022

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Sixteen months after Donald Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill to try to stop the certification of Joe Biden as president, a prominent election denier in Pennsylvania inched closer to becoming the next governor of Pennsylvania. State Sen. Doug Mastriano — who attended and helped organize for the “Stop the Steal” rally, has called for audits of Keystone State votes and has been subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 panel — clinched the GOP gubernatorial nomination. If he wins this fall, he’ll be in a position to nominate the next Pennsylvania secretary of state, a position that oversees elections in the key presidential battleground state. And, one week after catapulting J.D. Vance to victory in Ohio, Trump had a somewhat decent night, though the verdict on perhaps his biggest gamble — supporting Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania’s tight Senate primary — is still out. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Presented by Facebook.
0:03.0	Hey, what's up Playbookers on Rookumonovalin?
0:05.5	It's Wednesday.
0:06.6	Today's show, a recap of last night's primaries and why it was a good night for election deniers.
0:12.1	It's your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.
0:18.3	16 months after Donald Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill to try to stop the certification
0:23.3	of Joe Biden as president, a prominent election denier in Pennsylvania inched closer to becoming
0:29.1	the next governor, state senator Doug Mastriano, who attended and helped organize for the
0:34.1	stop-to-steel rally, has called for audits of Keystone State votes, and has
0:38.0	been subpoenaed by the House-January 6 panel, clinched the GOP-Gubinitorial nomination.
0:43.5	If he wins this fall, he'll be in a position to nominate the next Pennsylvania Secretary of
0:47.6	state, a position that oversees elections in the key presidential battleground state.
0:52.8	A couple of thoughts on this from Team Playbook.
0:55.1	The conventional wisdom on both sides last night was that this is good news for Josh Shapiro,
1:00.0	the Democratic gubernatorial nominee.
1:02.1	Talking heads were almost universally predicting that Maastriana was too rabbit-hole conspiracy-minded
1:07.2	to win a state that Trump couldn't even carry in 2020.
1:14.3	Politico's own Steve Shepard, as well as Cook Political Report announced last night,
1:18.9	they'd be shifting their election forecast for the Pennsylvania gubernatorial race from toss-up to lean Democrat.
1:20.3	Even the Republican Governors Association put out a very lukewarm statement about Nastriano's
1:25.5	victory, notably declining to say they will invest in him
1:28.6	as a candidate. But this election is far from a sure thing for Democrats. Given soaring inflation,
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