What kind of candidate keeps the press away from his campaign events with armed security? Doug Mastriano Christian Nationalist candidate for governor of Pennsylvania with armed security tied to militia Oath Keepers.

The Mastriano campaign begins at 8:13 in the video above.

What kind of candidate excludes the press from his campaign events?

Doug Mastriano seems more like a leader of a right wing terrorist cell who decided to run for office then a conventional candidate. His campaign is secretive. He doesn't allow the press. He surrounds himself with mercenaries for protection. - James Pitcherella

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"Doug Mastriano is running an unconventional campaign for governor. He’s not raising a lot of money. He prefers to attend closed-door events with his base or campaign at public events where reporters are often kept at arm's length.

But the Republican nominee’s campaign is also notable for another reason: Mastriano has surrounded himself with a non-professional, armed security team whose members include at least one person with direct ties to a militia group.

Mastriano’s detail includes several members of a relatively new evangelical church near Elizabethtown, LifeGate, whose leaders have spoken openly about electing Christians to office to advance biblical principles in government.

Perhaps the most visible member of the security team is James Emery, an Elizabethtown Area School Board member who has been photographed providing security to Mastriano at numerous events over the past year, sometimes armed. Earlier this month, Emery blocked members of the news media from entering a room in Erie where Mastriano was scheduled to speak to local business leaders."

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'Flow from the pulpit:' The LifeGate church members providing security to Doug Mastriano [Video]

CARTER WALKER | Staff Writer Aug 20, 2022 Updated Aug 20, 2022 

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Scott Nagle, GOP committeeman, connected to Oath Keepers

'This photo of Scott Nagle (identified as Nagel in original captioning) at an Oath Keepers event at the 2015 Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg was posted to the Facebook page of Larry Liguori, the former Pennsylvania Oath Keepers president. The Oath Keepers are a right-wing group founded in 2009 by Stewart Rhodes, a U.S. Army veteran from Montana. The name stems from the oath all U.S. armed service members take to defend the U.S. Constitution from “all enemies, foreign and domestic,” according to the nonprofit Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Via Facebook page of Larry Liguori"