Democracy Docket: Pennsylvania GOP governor nominee has long history of 2020 election denial
Stacy Garrity is an election denier who has never publicly stated that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election
PENNSYLVANIA — Recent reporting from Democracy Docket highlighted Stacy Garrity’s long record of “repeat[ing] falsehoods” about the 2020 election and proving herself to be “willing to do Trump’s anti-voter bidding” after saying she would “obviously” work with the Trump Administration to take over Pennsylvania’s 2026 elections.
This reporting comes as Garrity has been under scrutiny for her “article of faith” to Donald Trump and “praising the violent rioters” who assaulted police officers during Jan. 6 the insurrection — saying she was “proud of our Patriots” — while Trump has been caught repeating his stolen election lies “at least 107 times in the last six months.”
It’s clear: Stacy Garrity is an election denier who has never publicly stated that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.
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Democracy Docket: Pennsylvania GOP governor nominee has long history of 2020 election denial
Brentin Mock
May 19, 2026
- Stacy Garrity, the winner of Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial primary (she ran unopposed) has repeated falsehoods about President Donald Trump winning the 2020 election over the past several years.
- Currently the state treasurer, Garrity has not only reportedly stated that she believes Trump won Pennsylvania in 2020, but she also spoke at a rally the day before the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riots where she questioned the validity of the national results.
- “We know that he won,” Garrity told supporters, referring to Trump and the 2020 election, at an election night rally in 2022.
- According to the Pennsylvania radio news outlet WITF, Garrity also has hinted that her denial of Trump’s 2020 loss was what won her Trump’s endorsement in the governor’s race.
- But come November, Republicans’ choice will not only be a 2020 election denier, but one who’s willing to do Trump’s anti-voter bidding – a dim prospect for a swing state that figures prominently in Trump’s quest to take control of elections.
- As early as November 2020, Garrity was part of a Trump campaign-led effort to discredit more than 2,200 mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania as Trump worked to overturn Joe Biden’s win there. On Jan. 5, 2021, Garrity spoke at a rally in Harrisburg where she denounced the outcome of the election, saying that it “had been tarnished by unelected bureaucrats who ignored the election law as written.”
- Garrity denounced the violence of the U.S.Capitol riot that took place the next day, but then seemed to walk it back in replies to comments on her social media page, saying that she was “proud of our Patriots” and that her Harrisburg rally speech was about “condemning the election.”
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