{"id":1698146,"date":"2022-10-17T12:33:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T16:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1698146"},"modified":"2022-10-17T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T16:33:46","slug":"democrat-governor-candidate-breaks-pennsylvanias-campaign-spending-record-republican-spends-less-than-10-as-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-governor-candidate-breaks-pennsylvanias-campaign-spending-record-republican-spends-less-than-10-as-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Governor Candidate Breaks Pennsylvania\u2019s Campaign Spending Record, Republican Spends Less Than 10% As Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fdemocrat-governor-candidate-breaks-pennsylvanias-campaign-spending-record-republican-spends-less-than-10-as-much%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=1698146&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><a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/pennsylvania\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pennsylvania<\/a> Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro has broken the Keystone State\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/topic\/2022-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">campaign<\/a> spending record while state Senator Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee, has spent less than one-tenth of his rival\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro has reported $44 million in expenditures, surpassing the former $42 million record established by former Governor Ed Rendell in the 2002 cycle, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/news\/election2022\/2022\/10\/15\/pa-governor-race-campaign-finance-record-broken-shapiro-mastriano\/stories\/202210140117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Mastriano, however, has spent less than $3 million.<\/p>\n<p>While Shapiro has $11 million in reserves, Mastriano has $2.6 million. A recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trafalgar-founder-on-poll-indicating-pa-senate-race-tightening-people-starting-to-pay-attention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">survey<\/a> from The Daily Wire and Trafalgar Group found that 52.8% of voters in Pennsylvania support the former while 43.5% favor the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Trafalgar Group founder and senior strategist Robert Cahaly told The Daily Wire that Mastriano\u2019s presence at the United States Capitol on January 6 has induced voters in his own party to hesitate and caused establishment Republicans to tighten their purses. While the Democratic Governors Association has contributed $5.5 million to Shapiro, the Republican Governors Association has not provided any support to Mastriano.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his advantage in the polls and among donors, Shapiro appears to be aware of voters\u2019 enthusiasm surrounding education reform and school choice. The nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pennsylvania-democratic-governor-candidate-makes-unorthodox-nod-to-school-choice-in-final-weeks-of-campaign\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added language<\/a> to his campaign website last month in support of \u201cadding choices for parents and educational opportunity for students and funding lifeline scholarships like those approved in other states and introduced in Pennsylvania.\u201d The commonwealth\u2019s lifeline scholarship <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/CFDOCS\/Legis\/PN\/Public\/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&#038;sessYr=2021&#038;sessInd=0&#038;billBody=H&#038;billTyp=B&#038;billNbr=2169&#038;pn=3288\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legislation<\/a> would reallocate funds from the bottom 15% of districts to help families pay for tuition elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania State Education Association, a teachers union representing more than 187,000 staffers, has nevertheless <a href=\"https:\/\/joshshapiro.org\/endorsements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed<\/a> Shapiro. On the other hand, Mastriano argues in his campaign platform that \u201cparents have a fundamental right to know and control what their children are learning in school\u201d and calls for \u201cstatewide curriculum transparency requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Shapiro campaign has been able to run television advertisements every day since April, while Mastriano has noted that the lack of funding from the Republican Party has limited his ability to advertise. One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/not-on-my-watch-pennsylvania-governor-candidates-graphic-new-ad-torches-gender-ideology-in-schools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commercial<\/a> from Mastriano, however, discusses Shapiro\u2019s endorsements from organizations that advance leftist gender ideology and the graphic sexualized content found in government schools. Roughly 74% of registered voters support school choice, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/poll-more-parents-now-support-funding-students-not-systems-after-year-of-covid-lockdowns\">poll<\/a> from RealClear Opinion Research, while search engine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/community-family\/midterms-2022-here-are-the-issues-pennsylvania-voters-care-about-the-most\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">data<\/a> analyzed by the Washington Examiner appears to show that education is a particularly salient issue for voters in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in decades, Pennsylvanians will not witness a gubernatorial debate since Shapiro has not accepted Mastriano\u2019s requests for both candidates to pick their own moderators and field questions from both.<\/p>\n<p>In the commonwealth\u2019s Senate race, Democratic nominee John Fetterman and Republican nominee Dr. Mehmet Oz are only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/fetterman-versus-oz-pennsylvania-senate-nominees-finally-nail-down-time-and-place-for-debate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scheduled to debate<\/a> once. Fetterman, who has stuttered and lost his train of thought during multiple public appearances after suffering a stroke days before the Democratic primary, had committed to debate Oz \u201csometime in the middle to end of October\u201d on a \u201cmajor television station\u201d in Pennsylvania. The two candidates are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/surprising-group-of-voters-is-helping-dr-oz-narrow-the-gap-against-john-fetterman-in-pennsylvania-senate-contest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statistically tied<\/a> to clinch the open Senate seat, leading both major parties to heavily subsidize the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro has broken the Keystone State\u2019s campaign spending record while state Senator Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee, has spent less than one-tenth of his rival\u2019s budget. Shapiro has reported $44 million in expenditures, surpassing the former $42 million record established by former Governor Ed Rendell in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698146","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}