“In a lot of ways, it was a triumph over extremism as much as anything, and we probably underestimated that in the election,” Casey said. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said the election results showed voters’ eagerness to protect abortion rights and the sanctity of elections from subversion by far-right Republicans who promoted former President Donald Trump’s lies about voter fraud in his 2020 loss. Senate seat - just the second time since the Civil War that the state elected two Democrats to the chamber - while winning a majority of the state’s congressional seats and possibly even control of the state House of Representatives for the first time in 12 years. Shapiro, the state’s two-term attorney general, scored a massive 14 percentage point win over Republican rival Doug Mastriano in last week’s midterm election, smashed state campaign finance records and became the first candidate since 1966 to succeed a governor of the same party in Pennsylvania.ĭemocrats in the state also flipped a U.S.
(AP) - Josh Shapiro, the Democratic governor-elect of Pennsylvania, will take office with a decisive mandate from voters, who overwhelmingly rejected a Republican drive to pare back abortion rights and voting laws in the premier battleground state.
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