Mastriano won't debate Shapiro

In the race for Pennsylvania’s governor, Republican nominee Doug Mastriano has rejected a media-moderated debate and instead reserved a hotel ballroom on Oct. 22 and picked a partisan moderator for himself: Mercedes Schlapp, who served as former President Trump’s White House strategic communications director and is married to the chair of the American Conservative Union. The campaign of Democrat Josh Shapiro said Mastriano’s refusal to accept an independent moderator blew up about a dozen invitations from news organizations and other groups