There is a battle within the Republican party between the State GOP party and the Washington County group. Last week, the County party voted 21-3 on a ‘no confidence’ vote for State Senator Camera Bartolotta. State party Chairman Greg Rothman, however, dubbed the move ‘null and void’. In a release provided to WJPA News, the County party says its executive committee exercised its lawful authority to express a political position on behalf of its membership. Bartolotta has announced her candidacy for a fourth term and will face a primary challenge by Al Buchtan. The County party recently posted that Bartolotta undermined President Trump during his re-election campaign in regards to Charleroi’s Haitan immigrant population. They also claimed that Bartolotta co-sponsored and helped push through Pennsylvania’s election reform bill that expanded the use of mail-in ballots which the County party claims “damaged the integrity of our elections”. Bartolotta told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the County party is “this tiny little group of people who are in an echo chamber” and are “anti-everything”. She called the developments “nonsense” and a “distraction from the party’s intent”.