MASTRIANO'S ELECTION DENIALISM

Mastriano calls for a full audit and delay of the 2020 presidential vote certification until it is completed.

Mastriano hosts state Senate Gettysburg hearing on alleged election fraud with Trump call in and Rudy Giuliani testimony.

Later that same day, Mastriano attends a meeting at the White House on post-election strategy but then leaves, the Associated Press reports, after testing positive there for COVID-19.

Mastriano issues a legislative memo to fellow lawmakers saying he will introduce a Senate resolution “disputing the 2020 general election.” It says the legislature will name a new set of electors and withdraw the certification of Joe Biden's victory.

Mastriano appears on Trump ally Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast. “We’re going to take our power back; we’re going to seat the electors,” Mastriano says.

Mastriano alleges on Twitter that there is "mounting evidence that the PA presidential election was compromised."

Mastriano also says he will introduce a resolution “to exercise our obligation and authority to appoint delegates to the Electoral College.”

Mastriano introduces SR410 disputing the 2020 election, with seven cosponsors. It is referred to the State Government Committee, which does not hold a vote on it.

Twenty Pennsylvania Republicans sign a certificate designating themselves as a slate of electors and send the document to the National Archives. It includes a caveat that it be used “if, as the result of a final non-appealable court order or other proceeding proscribed by law, we are ultimately recognized as being duly elected and qualified electors.” Mastriano is not mentioned in this effort.

Mastriano urges top Justice Department officials to investigate fraud, per the Senate Judiciary committee's report. Trump mentions Mastriano and U.S. Rep Scott Perry (R., Pa.) during a Dec. 27 call with top Justice Department officials, urging DOJ to “just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican Congressmen.”

Mastriano spends $3,354 to charter buses to ferry 135 supporters to Washington for the "Stop the Steal" rally, using campaign cash. He later says he left before things got violent, but video unearthed by online sleuths appear to show him crossing police lines.

Mastriano, in a news release, condemns the Jan. 6 Capitol violence.

Mastriano appears on NewsTalk 103.7-FM a week after the attack on the Capitol. Mastriano refuses calls from colleagues to resign. He says he went to hear Trump speak and claims to have “zero involvement” in anything illegal. Mastriano says he had been scheduled to speak to busloads of friends and supporters at Freedom Plaza, but that was canceled. He says he walked to Capitol Hill and thanked the cops, saying he asked for directions, showed them his ID and was not waived off. He said he noticed agitators in the face of police, describing them as “not our crowd.” Mastriano describes the scene as a peaceful protest and says he left before anything “went sideways.” He says there would have been no issue if a photo he took with former State Rep. Rick Saccone had not circulated on social media.

A nonprofit led by former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell pays for an audit of the voting machines in Fulton County, according to the Arizona Mirror. Documents show Mastriano arranged for the audit by a contractor.

Mastriano and two other Pennsylvania lawmakers travel to Arizona to get a firsthand look at the widely discredited partisan review of the 2020 election commissioned by Republican lawmakers there.

Mastriano, as chairman of the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee, sends letters to three counties – including Philadelphia – demanding essentially all election-related equipment and materials. The counties refuse to comply despite Mastriano's warning that he may subpoena the materials.

State Senate leader Jake Corman strips Mastriano of his committee chairmanship and reassigns his Capitol staff. Corman, who would later run for governor against Mastriano, accuses his rival of grandstanding and takes control of the inquiry into the 2020 election.

Mastriano introduces SB819, which would remove the Pennsylvania secretary of state from the general election process and replace them with a three-person commission nominated by governor, Senate president pro tempore and House speaker. The bill, which has three cosponsors, is referred to the State Government Committee with no votes recorded.

Mastriano also, with three cosponsors, introduces SB821 to establish an election commission. The measure is referred to the State Government Committee with no votes recorded.

Mastriano introduces SB884, which would eliminate mail ballots. The measure, which has five cosponsors, is referred to the State Government Committee with no votes recorded.

Mastriano attends a "voter integrity" conference in Gettysburg with MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell and other election deniers. “Before entering, attendees signed a petition to decertify Pennsylvania’s 2020 election result,” the Patriot-News reports.

At a Pro-life Coalition Governor Forum in Chester County, Mastriano says he has a secretary of state and team selected.

Mastriano was a featured speaker at a far-right Christian conference called “Patriots Arise for God and Country” just three weeks before the May primary, where outlandish “QAnon” conspiracy theories were pushed by organizers who call themselves “prophets.”

He was part of a long list of speakers who cast the audience as faith-driven victims of “persecution” for their beliefs in long-debunked election fraud claims. Mastriano offered the Select Committee’s subpoena as proof of that.

“The left with their subpoenas,” he said, “I wear that proudly. It’s a badge of honor. I love it. That means I was actually doing my job as a citizen and senator for Pennsylvania. They can’t touch this. God has his hand over us. And they’re not going to get me to cower.”

He also complained about the U.S. Department of Justice investigating and prosecuting people who broke the law during the insurrection, drawing little distinction between people who walked to the Capitol and those who pushed inside while assaulting police officers.

“Last year was a dark year,” Mastriano said. “I could not believe my country had become such a dark, evil place, with the power being used, the FBI being used, the Department of Justice to oppress innocent civilians”

Mastriano insisted he and his wife had only exercised their right to free speech at the Capitol that day and “did nothing illegal.”

“They need you to shut up because we speak truth,” he said of the federal government. “We have the power of God with us.”

At a televised Republican gubernatorial debate, Mastriano says he does not face legal issues due to the Jan. 6 committee subpoena, citing his constitutional rights.

“I was there to hear my president speak, and then I was invited to speak in two locations, exercising my constitutional rights. And shame on the media and the Democrats for painting anyone down there as a villain,” he says.

Mastriano also says he will make Pennsylvania voters re-register to vote.

The Associated Press examined that claim in early June and found it would be “barred by the National Voter Registration Act, at least for federal elections, and likely runs into significant protections under the federal — and possibly the state — constitution and laws, constitutional law scholars say.

Mastriano submits documents to the Jan. 6 committee and agrees to be interviewed. The submission includes receipts for the buses he rented, a manifest of passengers, and documents he tweeted after the 2020 election. His lawyer also says Mastriano "cooperated fully" when the FBI interviewed him in 2021..