Doug Mastriano, a far-right politician, won the Republican race for Pennsylvania’s governor’s office in the primary round on Tuesday. Mastriano, 58, is known to be a Donald Trump fanatic and has often backed him on matters that are widely condemned in the United States.

Mastriano, who is currently a state senator in Pennsylvania, has been labelled as an “election denier” and a “conspiracy theorist” by lawmakers after he backed the voter fraud claims in the United States. Former President Donald Trump said that the 2020 presidential elections were rigged.

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Doug Mastriano was also present outside the US Capitol on January 6 and protested against the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral college votes. The House Select Committee investigating the incident also subpoenaed the Republican lawmaker.

If Mastriano makes it to Pennsylvania’s governor’s office after the upcoming midterm elections, he could also influence the swing state’s future election patterns. Pennsylvania’s governor has the power to appoint a secretary of state, who oversees how elections are run.

In his campaigns, Mastriano pledged to take the extraordinary step of requiring voters to “re-register” to vote, a move that would almost certainly encounter legal hurdles, Associated Press reported.

The far-right Republican also spoke out on the Roe v. Wade situation in the United States. Calling abortion “science-denying genocide”, Mastriano said that he supports an unconditional ban on all pregnancy termination.

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While speaking to his supporters on Tuesday, Mastriano responded to allegations of him “going extreme”, Associated Press reported. He said, “They [Democrats] like to call people who stand on the Constitution far right and extreme. I repudiate that. That is c**p. That is absolutely not true.”

Mastriano, a retired Army colonel, will face Democratic state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who was unopposed in his primary elections.