{"id":1669241,"date":"2022-10-03T05:49:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T09:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669241"},"modified":"2022-10-03T05:50:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T09:50:46","slug":"obamas-brother-endorses-republican-doug-mastriano-in-pennsylvania-governor-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/obamas-brother-endorses-republican-doug-mastriano-in-pennsylvania-governor-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s Brother Endorses Republican Doug Mastriano in Pennsylvania Governor Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fobamas-brother-endorses-republican-doug-mastriano-in-pennsylvania-governor-race%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1669241&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Malik Obama, the half-brother of\u00a0former President Barack Obama, has endorsed the Republican candidate for governor in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-pennsylvania\">Pennsylvania<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-doug-mastriano\">Doug Mastriano<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter on Sunday,\u00a0Malik Obama responded to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JackPosobiec\/status\/1576590985278038016\">post<\/a> from American conservative author and podcast host Jack Posobiec in which he suggested that the older Obama may like\u00a0Mastriano and should \u201ccheck him out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200b\u200bIf he\u2019s with President Trump then I\u2019m with @dougmastriano Pennsylvania Senator PA District 33,\u201d\u00a0Obama responded to the post.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/doug-mastriano-1200x800-1.jpeg\"><\/a> Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano gives a victory speech at his election-night party at The Orchards in Chambersburg, Pa., on May 17, 2022. (Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> endorsed\u00a0Mastriano in the primary race for governor earlier this year, saying in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/trump-endorses-mastriano-in-pennsylvania-gubernatorial-race_4466734.html\">statement<\/a>\u00a0that there is \u201cno one in Pennsylvania who has done more, or fought harder, for election integrity than state Senator Doug Mastriano.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 45th president added that\u00a0Mastriano is a pro-Trump, America First candidate who will fight crime, address election problems, promote pro-life policies, protect the Second Amendment, and support the U.S. military and veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Mastriano, an Afghanistan and Iraq veteran, is facing Democratic Attorney General Josh\u00a0Shapiro in the\u00a0Pennsylvania\u00a0gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/joshshapiro.org\/policy-voting\/\">campaign<\/a> has promised to be pro-abortion and\u00a0expand access to reproductive care, and \u201cveto\u00a0any efforts to restrict mail-in voting, expand early voting, and set up automatic voter registration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recent polls <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/governor\/2022\/pennsylvania\/\">suggest<\/a> Shapiro is leading.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ObamaMalik\/status\/1576570331598577667\">separate post<\/a> on Sunday,\u00a0Malik Obama also weighed in on Brazil\u2019s presidential election race between\u00a0left-wing candidate and former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Conservative\u00a0incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday saw neither candidate receive more than 50 percent of the ballot in the race, meaning the two now head to a second-round run-off later this month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/10\/02\/Bolsonaro-Lula--1200x675.jpg\"><\/a> (L) Former president of Brazil and candidate of the Worker\u2019s Party Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, on Oct.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malik Obama, the half-brother of\u00a0former President Barack Obama, has endorsed the Republican candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, Doug Mastriano. Taking to Twitter on Sunday,\u00a0Malik Obama responded to a post from American conservative author and podcast host Jack Posobiec in which he suggested that the older Obama may like\u00a0Mastriano and should \u201ccheck him out.\u201d \u201c\u200b\u200bIf he\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1669241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1669241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1669241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1669241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1669241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1669241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}