4 Republicans claw for an edge in live TV Pennsylvania governor's debate
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Leading candidates for the Republican nomination for Pennsylvania’s open governor's office made big promises in Wednesday night’s debate about how they’ll ramp up the economy and spend state dollars, as they clawed for an edge in a huge nine-person field.Four of the nine candidates appeared at the live-televised prime-time debate, spending part of the hour in the studio of WHTM-TV in Harrisburg trying to establish an identity or an edge on a rival.The four met the polling threshold set by the station’s parent company as they vie for the nomination to succeed the term-limited Gov.
Tom Wolf, a Democrat. Five others didn’t meet the polling threshold.The candidates were: Lou Barletta, the GOP’s nominee for U.S.
Senate in 2018 and a former congressman known for his crusade against illegal immigration; state Sen. Doug Mastriano, a force in Pennsylvania’s right-wing politics who pushed to overturn 2020′s presidential election; Bill McSwain, a lawyer in private practice who was the U.S.
attorney in Philadelphia under former President Donald Trump; and Dave White, who runs an $85 million-a-year plumbing and HVAC firm and is a former Delaware County councilman.In addition to questions on taxes and the economy, the candidates agreed that they would get rid of the state’s two-year-old no-excuse mail-in voting law, which some Republicans blame for Trump’s 2020 election loss in the presidential battleground state.They also said they would sign "constitutional carry" legislation — scrapping the state’s requirement that gunowners get a permit from the county to carry a concealed firearm in public.
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