All posts tagged "Josh Shapiro"

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a rebuke from a governor irked about two of his residents dying from measles.

According to a report by MeidasTouch, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) revealed on Tuesday that he confronted RFK Jr. about "scaring people" with conspiracy theories about vaccines. The confrontation came after two Pennsylvania residents died from measles.

"While I appreciate his willingness to offer staff to assist us, we think we're able to manage this through the Department of Health," Shapiro said during an appearance in Lancaster. According to MeidasTouch, Shapiro also released a statement on Tuesday that confirmed his refusal of RFK Jr.'s offer to send federal personnel to Pennsylvania to respond to the growing measles outbreak....

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro denounced Donald Trump for singling out immigrants in a small town in his state.

The former president claimed Haitian migrants had “inundated" Charleroi, in southwestern Pennsylvania, after claiming immigrants from that Caribbean nation were stealing and eating pets in Springfield, Ohio, but Shapiro concurred with the small town's mayor and told The New Republic's Greg Sargent that Trump's comments were nonsense.

"It’s complete and utter bulls---," Shapiro said. "He’s been called out on it by the town manager. He’s been called out on it by the Republican state senator who represents, quite honorably, that community. He’s been called out on it by local officials and others who have said what Donald Trump is saying is absolutely false. By the way, what Dave McCormick, the guy running for Senate against Bob Casey, has said about it is absolutely false."...

Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro, who is Jewish, hit back at former President Donald Trump on the final night of the Democratic National Convention, saying the MAGA leader's "anti-Semitic" comments are an "affront to Jews everywhere."

Trump raised eyebrows by highlighting Shapiro's Jewish faith when the ex-president slammed Shapiro's convention speech.

"The highly overrated Jewish Governor of the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, made a really bad and poorly delivered speech talking about freedom and fighting for Comrade Kamala Harris for President, yet she hates Israel and will do nothing but make its journey through the complexities of survival as difficult as possible, hoping in the end that it will fail," Trump posted on Truth Social. ...

Donald Trump raised eyebrows by highlighting Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's Jewish faith when the ex-president slammed Shapiro's speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The Democratic governor, who was widely seen as a frontrunner to become Kamala Harris' running mate before she chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, undercut Trump's message by arguing that Republicans opposed freedom – including the freedom to vote for anyone but him – and the former president raged after midnight on social media.

"The highly overrated Jewish Governor of the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, made a really bad and poorly delivered speech talking about freedom and fighting for Comrade Kamala Harris for President, yet she hates Israel and will do nothing but make its journey through the complexities of survival as difficult as possible, hoping in the end that it will fail," Trump posted on Truth Social. "Judge only by her actions! Yet Shapiro, for strictly political reasons, refused to acknowledge that I am the best friend that Israel, and the Jewish people, ever had." ...

The campaign for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sought to quietly "kneecap" Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in the days leading up to Kamala Harris' much-anticipated choosing of Tim Walz as her running mate.

Trump's team knew it did not want the more moderate Shapiro to become the Democratic vice presidential candidate — and formed a "de facto alliance with the enemy of its enemy": the progressive left, The Bulwark's Marc Caputo reported Tuesday.

An adviser to Trump, who remained anonymous, told the publication that they "amplified the leftists on Twitter" against Shapiro....

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro electrified Democrats at a rally Tuesday afternoon in his home state, ahead of Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' introduction to newly minted running mate Tim Walz.

Cheers erupted at Temple University as Shapiro, himself a finalist to become Harris' running mate, talked about what he called "GSD" a profane acronym for "Getting s--- done."

Shapiro began his speech thanking Philadelphia and thanking the state for letting him be the governor. ...