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Shapiro ran for governor of Pennsylvania in the 2022 election. He ran unopposed in the Democratic primary and defeated Republican nominee Doug Mastriano in the general election by a 14.8 percent margin.
Shapiro was born on June 20, 1973, in Kansas City, Missouri, to a father serving in the Navy as a medical officer, and was raised in Dresher, a part of Upper Dublin Township in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. His father, Steven, is a pediatrician, and his mother, Judi, is a teacher.
He attended the University of Rochester, where he majored in political science and became the first freshman to win election as the student body president of the University of Rochester in 1992. He graduated magna cum laude in 1995. While working on Capitol Hill, he enrolled at the Georgetown University Law Center as an evening student and earned a Juris Doctor in 2002.
While a state representative, Shapiro was one of the first public backers of then-Senator Barack Obama for president in 2008. This was in contrast with much of the Pennsylvania political establishment, which supported Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
In 2019, Shapiro led efforts to ensure that insurance holders of Highmark, a healthcare company, can receive treatment at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The settlement allowed 1.9 million insurance recipients to continue using their existing doctors as in-plan providers rather than being forced to switch either medical providers or insurance providers.
In 2021, Shapiro announced an opioid settlement with Johnson & Johnson and three other U.S. pharmaceutical distributors that resulted in Pennsylvania receiving $1 billion.
Shapiro joined several other state attorneys general in opposing President Donald Trump’s travel ban, and also sued Trump and the Roman Catholic organization Little Sisters of the Poor to block the implementation of a rule that would have made it easier for employers to deny health insurance coverage of contraceptives.
Shapiro supports cutting Pennsylvania’s nearly 10 percent corporate tax rate to 4 percent by 2025. He has proposed hiring 2,000 additional police officers across Pennsylvania, saying, the “more police officers we hire, the more opportunities we have for them to get out of their patrol cars, walk the beat, learn the names of the kids in the communities”. Shapiro favors pardoning those convicted for possession of small amount of marijuana.
On efforts to mitigate COVID-19, Shapiro has broken with some in the Democratic Party and opposes mask and vaccine mandates. He prefers educating the public about vaccines’ efficacy.
On the issue of vocational training, Shapiro has proposed increasing career and technical training in high schools, tripling state funding for apprenticeships and union skills programs, and creating a Pennsylvania office of workforce development. He also supports eliminating four-year degree requirements for state government jobs. Shapiro is a supporter of unions and has vowed to veto any “right to work” legislation.
Shapiro has repeatedly voiced support for Israel in the Israel–Hamas war. He called on people and governments to condemn the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, calling it a moment “to recognize what is so clearly wrong, the acts of Hamas, and what is right, and that is Israel, our key ally’s right to defend herself in the face of this barbarism.” Shapiro faced criticism for his remarks in a letter written by CAIR and signed by 43 Pennsylvania Muslim organizations, who said that Shapiro did not “recognize the structural root causes of the conflict” and “chose to intentionally ignore the civilian loss of life in Gaza”.
On December 13, 2023, Shapiro gave more detailed remarks on the war, saying, “Israel not only has a right, they have a responsibility to rid the region of Hamas and the terror that Hamas can perpetrate.”
After a pro-Palestinian protest accused Jewish-owned Philadelphia restaurant Goldie of supporting the “genocide” of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Shapiro visited the restaurant in a show of support against the “blatant act of antisemitism”. He also criticized University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill for “failure of leadership” after sidestepping questions during the 2023 United States Congress hearing on antisemitism. Shapiro condemned pro-Palestinian protests at American colleges after a prominent rabbi at Columbia University urged Jewish students to leave campus and said the university could not guarantee their safety. He called on local officials to “step in and enforce the law” to protect students. Shapiro called for a police crackdown on the pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Pennsylvania, but later said he was already aware of police plans to disband the encampment after police made arrests less than 24 hours after Shapiro’s statement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Shapiro
IMO, Shapiro would be the best choice for the old school Democrats to take back their party. But the better hurry and get in the dog fight.