Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, insisted that he had "nothing to be ashamed of" after being seen with a group of rioters on Jan. 6.
During an interview on OAN, host Dan Ball joked that Mastriano was a "dirty insurrectionist" after MSNBC asked Republican Pennsylvania voters if his Jan. 6 actions changed their view of the candidate.
MSNBC's Elise Jordan told the panel of voters that Mastriano was pictured behind a group of rioters who breached a police barricade. The voters, however, would not accept that Mastriano had done anything wrong.
"They tried so hard," Mastriano said of MSNBC. "Two and a half years of information operations."
"Just because you showed up at an event to peacefully assemble," he continued. "By the way, the assembly at the Capitol was a permitted event by the Capitol Police. There were free speech zones and those were permitted by Capitol Police."
Mastriano added: "If you didn't break any laws, you've got nothing to be ashamed of. You know, most people that went there is mostly peaceful — 99% of the people, you know, they came and they left and they did nothing wrong."
Watch the video below from OAN.
