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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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Oct 28, 2020

Well, I hate to give you a legal answer, but it really depends, right? If you stand outside and videotape a scene in Center City, Philadelphia, that's not illegal, even if you're videotaping a scene of people voting. Now, if you're doing…

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Oct 28, 2020

We're going to make sure that every legal eligible vote is counted here in Pennsylvania.

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Oct 28, 2020

I can tell you that the decision was made carefully and purposefully. With the aim of making sure that all legal eligible votes are secured, protected and counted here in Pennsylvania.

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Oct 28, 2020

Look, the real problem here, Joy, is that we have a president who's trying to not just sow doubt in this election process but sow division in the way people vote.

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Oct 28, 2020

We've been preparing for this moment for months and we will not let any groups from the Proud Boys to anyone else step in and interfere with the election in any way. We're very serious about protecting the vote.

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Oct 28, 2020

We simply will not tolerate any type of voter intimidation here in Pennsylvania.

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Oct 23, 2020

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred on the side of inclusion, erred on the side of making sure these ballots are counted. That's a good thing for democracy. That's a good thing for this election. It's a good thing for Pennsylvania.

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Oct 23, 2020

If their intent is to intimate that voter when they come to drop off their ballot or when they show up on election day, whatever the case may be, that's voter intimidation. That's illegal. We won't stand for that here in Pennsylvania.

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Oct 23, 2020

Look, Lawrence, it's another win for the voters in Pennsylvania. I would point out we're 5-0 against the attacks from Donald Trump and his enablers on our voting here in Pennsylvania, on our election system here in Pennsylvania.

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Oct 23, 2020

What the Trump campaign and their enablers were asking for really was ridiculous. What the goal was, of course, was to try to throw away as many of these mail-in ballots as possible.

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Oct 20, 2020

People need to stop in the Trump administration and his enablers stop trying to undermine our laws here in Pennsylvania.

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Oct 20, 2020

It seems to be now sort of in fashion in vogue for these conservative judges to not so much go along with that.

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Oct 20, 2020

I think what Donald Trump is afraid of candidly, is having all legal eligible votes in Pennsylvania counted, because I think he'll come out on the short end of that stick at the ballot box just as he has in the courthouses where we've beat…

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Oct 20, 2020

Unfortunately, what you have are repeated attacks against our election laws here in Pennsylvania by Donald Trump and his enablers trying to make it harder for people to vote, trying to make it easier for ballots to be discarded.

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Sep 30, 2020

The power rests with the people here in Pennsylvania and across the country to determine the future of our democracy.

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Sep 30, 2020

I'm just not going to allow that.

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Sep 30, 2020

He didn't misspeak, he didn't misrepresent, he flat out lied.

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Aug 20, 2020

We will stop his efforts to undermine the vote here in Pennsylvania, as we've stopped his efforts to undermine our LGBTQ brothers and sisters, as we've stopped his efforts to undermine our planet and so many other issues time and time…

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Aug 20, 2020

Voting is safe. We've been doing this for centuries. Trump knows this. But he carries on to try to sow doubt.

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Aug 20, 2020

Look, we have a long track record in Pennsylvania and my fellow Democratic attorneys general have a long track record of holding this president accountable when he breaks the law.

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Aug 17, 2020

I guess I will say, I will believe it when I see it. I will not let my foot off the gas so long as the postal officials continue to violate the law.

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Aug 16, 2020

We're gathering evidence right now. We're looking at how it's worked in the past.

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Oct 3, 2017

I think we all agree, we need to punish the criminals who scam our seniors.

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Oct 3, 2017

We are hopeful that as the Congress considers funding bills and other initiatives, that there be resources put in specifically to driving home that message and focusing on education.

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Oct 3, 2017

I am a huge believer that if you empower the population that you are there to serve and protect, and they can stop a scam in their tracks, ultimately there is less work for attorneys general, district attorneys, and others to do, and that…

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