Bill McSwain’s campaign is raising more questions than answers and not just in his refusal to answer basic questions, but in his newly unveiled campaign website riddled with flaws.
PENNSYLVANIA — It looks like Bill McSwain’s history of clumsy and unforced errors isn’t going away any time soon: on the day he officially launched his campaign for governor, he couldn’t even get his own website right and he ran away from TV cameras at his own announcement event.
It’s hard to keep track of the few things that went right for McSwain during his long-planned gubernatorial campaign launch, but it’s easy to see his many mistakes.
When McSwain’s website went live, his privacy policy was confusing and appeared to still be a draft — he even left “suggested” language on the site.
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The McSwain team didn’t just have to clean up the language they clearly didn’t write — what they did write was full of sloppy errors, including two misspellings of “country” on the “Education” section of McSwain’s issues page.
While support for McSwain is already few and far between, it would have been almost impossible to reach the McSwain team following his launch since his mobile texting service didn’t even go live until over 24 hours later, leaving anyone who wanted to sign up with an error message.
“After months of hype, Bill McSwain’s launch was a dud – his campaign website is full of sloppy errors, no one knows who he is, and he keeps dodging reporters’ questions,” said Pennsylvania Democratic Party spokesperson Marisa Nahem. “In this embarrassing first week marking the official start of McSwain’s campaign to become Trump’s PA Apprentice, he has shown that despite his best attempts, he isn’t even able to do that right. Pennsylvanians deserve better, but it’s clear this is the best we’re going to get from Bill McSwain.”
Sadly, it’s not even clear if the worst part of McSwain’s week was his flawed website. There are many cringeworthy moments to choose from, whether it was McSwain dodging local media or his silence as Republicans in Harrisburg approved subpoenas giving inexperienced third parties access to Pennsylvanians’ personal information in a move already being criticised by cybersecurity experts across the nation. After McSwain’s disastrous entry into the “Super MAGA” primary, one thing is clear: “William McShade” has a long way to go in his quest to become Trump’s PA Apprentice.
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