Having been edged by Josh Shapiro by a mere 787,564 votes, Doug Mastriano claimed in a Tweet on Wednesday (November 23), that he had outperformed every Republican candidate in the past 60 years.
Included among the Republican Gubernatorial candidates over that period of time who Mastriano boasts of having outperformed are:
Mastriano’s 2,233,350 votes place him in a league of his own compared to all other gubernatorial Republicans in the entire history of Pennsylvania.
The 2,172,763 votes Jim Corbett received in 2010 put him in second position among all Republican candidates. The other aforementioned Republican candidates underperformed Mastriano by at least 600,000 votes.
The only consolation that Scranton, Shafer, Thornburgh, Ridge and Corbett might have been able to take from their lackluster performances is that they were able to beat their Democrat opponents and serve as Governor of Pennsylvania