Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced on Jan. 8 that he is running for a second term to lead the key swing state.
Shapiro—who was a final contender to be Vice President Kamala Harris’s 2024 running mate and is widely seen as a 2028 presidential contender—was first elected to the governor’s office in 2022 after defeating Republican nominee Doug Mastriano. Shapiro won the state at the time with 3.03 million votes, or 56.4 percent of the vote.
His record of being the first candidate to receive more than 3 million votes in the state was surpassed by several candidates in 2024, including his likely 2026 Republican opponent Stacy Garrity, who won reelection as state treasurer with 3.5 million votes in 2024—though she garnered 52 percent of the vote in that election to Shapiro’s wider vote margin in 2022….
Shapiro Launches Reelection Bid for Pennsylvania Governor
