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Josh Shapiro

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Josh Shapiro is the 48th Governor of Pennsylvania, having taken office on January 17, 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the Attorney General of Pennsylvania from 2017 to 2023, where he focused on issues such as consumer protection, public safety, and civil rights. Shapiro has been an advocate for transparency in government and has emphasized the importance of community engagement in development projects.

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Sep 15, 2021

Every single hour of every single day, I worry about our democracy. Look, the good people of Pennsylvania have been lied to, by their elected leaders, elected Republican leaders, here in Pennsylvania, lied to, by the former president.

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Sep 15, 2021

They are actually perpetuating a charade, on the good people of Pennsylvania, at the behest of Donald Trump.

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Sep 15, 2021

And it's important to note Anderson that they sued us, over 40 times, here in Pennsylvania, first, to make it harder for people to vote--

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Sep 9, 2021

They`re absolute nonsense. And Katie Hobbs is right, it`s a fraud-it. I think it`s a charade and a sham and I think what is important for Pennsylvanians to know is that these Republican Pennsylvania senators are using taxpayer dollars to…

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Sep 9, 2021

The problem is these Republican state senators continued to put conspiracies in front of our state constitution, continue to put important issues like climate change and job creation and educating our kids, dealing with gun violence on the…

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Jul 9, 2021

This is one insurrectionist state senator who is being enabled by the modern day republican party, which is beholden to Donald Trump.

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Jul 8, 2021

He cannot be trusted to act in the best interests of the people. He was the one who filed the seditious lawsuit trying to disenfranchise millions of Pennsylvania voters.

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Jul 8, 2021

We have to defend the right to vote, defend the right for everyone to be heard, so that we can then work on perfecting our union, make it more inclusive, tackle the big challenges we have.

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Jul 8, 2021

Well, it will be stopped. And just examine my track record of stopping efforts to try and disenfranchise are black and brown communities here in Pennsylvania.

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Jul 8, 2021

I think we have to do it at all levels. And, look, sadly, I think Congress seems unable to do it.

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Jul 8, 2021

Absolutely. Look, what`s happening in Texas is horrible.

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Jul 6, 2021

This would cost the taxpayers millions and millions of dollars. This rogue state senator is demanding the election machines, the paper ballots, the technology used to run elections.

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Jul 6, 2021

Importantly, let's speak some truth. There have already been two legal audits done in counties all across Pennsylvania. We know the truth. And the truth is that Joe Biden won the election here in Pennsylvania, by just over 80,000 votes.

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Jul 6, 2021

And that is absolutely nowhere. You know, we will fight this tooth and nail in court, this attempt to hurt taxpayers, which is what's going on here.

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Jul 6, 2021

They're doing real damage to our democracy, but this is who they are. I mean, they peddle the big lie.

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Jul 6, 2021

Well, Anderson, just one respectful correction, it's not Republicans in Pennsylvania. And it's not a group of senators. It is one insurrectionist state senator who is demanding the personal private voting information of 997,000…

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Jul 6, 2021

They have bought into the big lie. And sadly, they keep selling it to the good people of Pennsylvania. They keep telling the good people of Pennsylvania, something that is just simply not true in order to feed their own political…

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Jun 23, 2021

These are the modern Republican Party leaders. These are the people running statewide in these swing states.

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Jun 23, 2021

I have made clear that I`m going to hold all the lawyers accountable who have engaged in the big lie, Rudy Giuliani and others.

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Jun 23, 2021

I`m always worried about violence when leaders either directly try to incite violence like the quote that you just had before and like the kinds of things that Giuliani and Trump and others said all along.

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Jun 23, 2021

There needs to be truth-telling and there needs to be accountability.

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Jun 23, 2021

It did. It not only resulted in actual death threats to great public servants here in Pennsylvania, but as I`ve been saying now for months, it led directly to the violent insurrection on our Capitol on January 6th.

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Jun 7, 2021

the question is, why are so many leading figures in the Republican Party, particularly here in Pennsylvania, so focused and captured by the big lie?

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Jun 7, 2021

They're so desperate for Donald Trump's support. They're so desperate to get his, you know, his statements of support.

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Jun 7, 2021

They keep talking about an audit. There were two audits done here in Pennsylvania... Those audits showed that we had a safe and secure election.

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