Launching his gubernatorial campaign Wednesday, Pennsylvania’s Democratic attorney general sought to tie the crowded Republican field to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection and former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn last year’s election.

Josh Shapiro, who is running unopposed in the Democratic primary so far, said Republican gubernatorial candidates are “peddling the Big Lie” that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump and are “doing real damage to our democracy.”

“They’re passing far-right litmus tests, and they’re pandering to the special interests,” he said in a campaign kickoff speech in Pittsburgh.

The Republican Governors Association shot back that Shapiro would continue what it called the “failed policies” of the incumbent governor, Democrat Tom Wolf. It said Wolf’s COVID-19 pandemic policies have “endangered Pennsylvania seniors, crushed the economy, and left the Keystone State with an unemployment rate well above the national average.”

In a campaign video, Shapiro said the Republican candidates “want to lead us down a dark path, undermine free and fair elections, strip away voting rights and permanently divide us.” The video showed images of the Capitol riot and a newspaper headline about GOP state lawmakers’ ongoing “forensic investigation” of last year’s presidential election.