PA Attorney General Josh Shapiro in Sunbury announcing LETI funding
HARRISBURG – While the state Democratic Committee couldn’t agree on an endorsement for the US Senate candidates in Pennsylvania, the current state Attorney General Josh Shapiro easily won the party’s endorsement for governor of Pennsylvania. The state committee met Saturday and offered their official endorsement to Shapiro is the only major candidate seeking the nomination.
The democratic insiders also endorsed Shapiro’s Lieutenant Governor Candidate, Allegheny County house member Austin Davis.
Shapiro is PA Attorney General; he was a state representative and a Montgomery County Commissioner. He said he was grateful for the endorsement, “You have unified behind my candidacy in a way that is really unprecedented,” and he noted he’ll take the responsibility seriously.
More than a dozen GOP candidates are seeking the nomination, and so far none has emerged with the Republican’s straw poll full endorsement, though more polling and voting among the GOP is still planned this month.
Democrats US Senate candidates did not garner the sufficient threshold for a full endorsement from the Democratic committee.
