Jewish organizations, including the Philadelphia branch of the Anti-Defamation League and the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, condemned Dush's Nazi analogy as "offensive and wrong". After the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Dush was one of 26 Pennsylvania House Republicans who called for withdrawing certification of presidential electors, despite Joe Biden winning Pennsylvania by over 80,000 votes with no evidence of fraud. This was also after federal appeals brought by the Trump campaign were dismissed due to lack of evidence. Afterward, Dush traveled to Arizona along with fellow senator Doug Mastriano, and state house member Rob Kauffman, to observe its 2021 Maricopa County presidential ballot audit, which the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors called a "spectacle". The audit was ordered by Arizona's Republican senate majority, the rationale for which was generated by widely discredited conspiracy theories. One firm involved had previously audited the 2020 election in Pennsylvania. The United States Department of Justice warned the audit participants that they may have broken the law in compromising the integrity of those Maricopa County, Arizona ballots. In September 2021, Dush chaired a Republican-led committee that approved subpoenas for a wide range of data and personal information on voters. In 2022, he sponsored legislation to prohibit ballot drop boxes in Pennsylvania elections. Dush was appointed to chair of the Senate State Government Committee in 2023 by President Pro Tem Kim Ward. In that role Dush approved of measures to require voter ID, allow for post-election audits, and require more security for ballot drop boxes. References External links Official campaign website Official Pennsylvania State Senate profile |- Living people Republican Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American politicians 1961 births Republican Party Pennsylvania state senators Politicians from Jefferson County, Pennsylvania