The stakes of the midterms could not be higher — and Governor Shapiro is fighting to win this November and put a check on Donald Trump

LOWER BUCKS, PA –The midterms run through Pennsylvania — and Governor Josh Shapiro is fighting to elect Democrats up and down the ballot in November to flip the U.S. House of Representatives. The Governor is focused on winning races all across Pennsylvania in order to elect leaders who will fight for working families, lower costs, and hold Donald Trump and his enablers accountable.

With less than 25 days until Election Day, Governor Shapiro is working to send strong Democratic leaders who are ready to deliver for Pennsylvania families to Congress. Yesterday, the Governor rallied Pennsylvanians alongside U.S. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Bob Harvie, Eileen Hartnett Albillar, and local leaders in Bucks County.

From supporting our Democratic Congressional candidates, to investing in and building a strong Pennsylvania Democratic Party, Governor Shapiro is leading the fight to flip the House this November and put a check on Donald Trump’s chaos, cruelty, and corruption.

See below for key excerpts from Governor Josh Shapiro’s remarks in Lower Bucks — and watch his full speech here:

Governor Shapiro on Trump’s chaos, cruelty, and corruption: “This is the insidious nature of his corruption, when [Donald Trump’s] sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office, what’s he doing? He’s not thinking about how to give you healthcare. He’s not thinking about how to give back SNAP benefits to the 143,000 Pennsylvanians who lost it. He’s making deals that hurt you. He’s making deals that undermine your interests. Let me tell you something. Every day he goes to work trying to screw over a Pennsylvanian is the same day I go to work standing up for all Pennsylvanians, fighting back against his chaos, his cruelty, and his corruption.”

Governor Shapiro on getting stuff done: “Every day, I’m fighting for you. Fighting for our schools here in Bucks County, where we’ve invested in them again, where we’ve got universal free breakfast now as the law in this Commonwealth. We’re bringing jobs to Bucks County, including in Falls Township at Nuuly’s new site. We’re growing our economy. We cut taxes 10 times to put money back in your pockets for seniors, for families who are trying to afford child care. I’m proud of what we’ve done, but I know it feels like every time we put $1 in your pocket, Donald Trump takes two bucks out the other one, and we got to end that. And the best way to end that, I’ll tell you how we do that, is to make sure we’ve got a Congress of the United States that’s no longer a rubber stamp on Donald Trump. I want a member of Congress like Bob Harvie, who’s going to fight to cut costs in Pennsylvania. I want a member of Congress who’s going to stand up for our fundamental freedoms every single day.”

Governor Shapiro on Pennsylvanians’ power in these midterms: “You are the ones with the real power in this conversation, and you’re the ones with the real power in our country. You have the ability, right now, here in Bucks County, the swingiest county in the swingiest state in the whole country, to decide the future direction of our Commonwealth and our country. If you come together and you vote for Eileen Hartnett Albillar and send her to the state Senate, you will give me something we haven’t had since 1992 — a Democratic trifecta in Harrisburg… You’ve got the power to help us get more stuff done here in Pennsylvania, and you’ve got the power to decide whether or not Donald Trump will continue to have a rubber stamp in Congress… I would argue you’ve actually got a responsibility here to use it because as Pennsylvanians, we’ve got a special responsibility to protecting this country, to defending this nation. Started here 250 years ago, at the old Independence Hall, where a band of patriots came together. Some of them had been hanging out in Bucks County for a while. You’ll remember. Read your history books. It’s true. They were in Bristol, living right next to Bob Harvie. It’s true. It’s true. And they gathered in Independence Hall, and they came together and declared their independence from a king.

“It was a brave act. They didn’t know where it would lead, but miraculously, a decade later, they came back to Independence Hall. They gathered to set the scaffolding for our new nation, set up the basic laws, tenets that would guide us forward. There were a whole lot of important words written on that parchment in the Declaration and in the Constitution. And I would argue, though, the most important words were never written down. They were uttered by a guy who was one of five people to sign both the Declaration and the Constitution. A guy whose portrait hangs on my wall in my office because he’s one of my predecessors, a guy named Ben Franklin. Famously, after signing the Constitution, Franklin walked out onto the cobblestone streets of Philadelphia, surrounded by Sixers fans. A woman walked over to him, Speaker Jeffries. A woman walked over to him, and I want you to think about this for a moment. A woman walks over to him at that moment. She doesn’t even have the right to vote at that moment, and she looks him in the eye and says, ‘Dr. Franklin, what do we have here? A monarchy or a republic?’ Franklin looked her in the eye and said the most important words in our democracy: ‘A republic, if you can keep it.’ Think about it. Franklin did all that work. The founders did all that work, but they left the power to each and every one of you.”

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