HARRISBURG, PA – On Saturday, Governor Josh Shapiro traveled to Centre, Clinton, and Lycoming counties where he met with Pennsylvanians, rallied local Democrats, and discussed the stakes of this year’s elections across the Commonwealth.

Throughout the day, Governor Shapiro heard directly from Pennsylvanians about the challenges they are facing and reaffirmed his commitment to protecting our fundamental freedoms, lowering costs for working families, and standing up to Donald Trump’s chaos, cruelty, and corruption that is raising costs and hurting Pennsylvania families, farmers, and small businesses.

Since taking office, Governor Shapiro has delivered commonsense solutions that put Pennsylvania families first: strengthening schools, expanding job opportunities, making communities safer, and growing local economies by supporting Pennsylvania farmers and small businesses. The Governor’s leadership is strengthening rural communities and creating new pathways of opportunity and success for Pennsylvanians across the Commonwealth.

See below for some of what Pennsylvanians are reading about Governor Shapiro’s stops in Central Pennsylvania below:

WPSU: Gov. Josh Shapiro rallies Centre County Democrats ahead of 2026 midterms 

Sydney Roach

• Gov. Josh Shapiro spoke to a nearly packed conference room of almost 400 people at the Penn Stater in State College Saturday morning ahead of this year’s midterm elections.
• “Donald Trump has literally made everything cost more in Pennsylvania,” Shapiro said. “Go visit and talk to some of our farmers here in Centre County. They’ll tell you how these tariffs not only made fertilizer cost 36% more for them, but how markets in Canada and Mexico have been shut down.”
• Shapiro called on the audience to vote for him as governor in November so he can continue fighting against Trump’s policies, try to raise Pennsylvania’s minimum wage and build more housing.
• Shapiro also called on Democrats to vote to flip the U.S. House.

 

WTAJ: Governor Shapiro discusses Pennsylvania issues in Centre County

Jon Draeger

• Shapiro delivered a keynote speech underscoring the importance of the election, ongoing issues in Pennsylvania, and problems coming from the nation’s capital. The party aims to flip state seats, many of which are held by Republican incumbents.
• Governor Shapiro stated that a successful reelection would prevent policies similar to those at the federal level from impacting Pennsylvanians. Shapiro expressed concern about federal actions impacting individual liberties.
• “The federal government has been taking away people’s freedoms, making it harder for families to be able to raise their children, making it harder for women to make decisions over their own bodies, trying to undermine our right to vote here in Pennsylvania,” Shapiro said. “Unfortunately, my opponent is really just a rubber stamp for those policies. Endorses all of them.”
• Shapiro also suggested that successfully flipping both houses in Pennsylvania could potentially contribute to a shift at the federal level.

 

Lock Haven Express: Shapiro makes stop in county; speaks to constituents leading up to Primary

Laura Jameson

• Nearly 100 Clinton County residents packed into Avenue 209 Coffee House over the weekend as Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) made his way through Clinton and surrounding counties.
• The current governor, who is looking to secure a second term, told those gathered he hadn’t forgotten about Clinton County.
• “I am here today because Clinton County matters,” he said.
• Shapiro touched on a variety of topics during his speech including the failings he sees in government on the federal level and its ripple effects into Pennsylvania.
• “If we’re going to have a check on this chaos and corruption… we are counting on the community in Clinton County,” he said.
• Shapiro said, if re-elected, he will ensure the right to vote for all Americans, keep Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) out of neighborhoods, stop the creation of ICE detention centers in the state, ensure parents choose how to vaccinate their children and protect women’s right to bodily autonomy.
• “I’m going to protect those fundamental values that set our country forward. I am the governor that’s got your back,” he said.
• During his speech, Shapiro emphasized the power county residents have in steering decisions that impact them.
• “I’m here today because I think you’ve got real power and real responsibility. This falls on you because you are a Pennsylvanian,” he said. “This is the birthplace of American Democracy. The brilliance of our founders when we declared our independence and came back to write the constitution.”
• He noted the founders left this work incomplete.
• “They left it to the next generation and the next and the next. To do the hard work and protect our union,” he said. “They started something to allow there to be an opportunity to continue. And now, we’re the generation who has the power and responsibility to carry it forward.”

 

Williamsport Sun-Gazette: Gov. Josh Shapiro delivers speech at Lycoming College

Mark Maroney

• In a reelection campaign stop in Williamsport on Saturday, Gov. Josh Shapiro called on voters in this election cycle to “push back on the people that enable the chaos, corruption and cruelty,” among those whom he called “rubber stamps” for President Donald J. Trump.
• Shapiro told the Sun-Gazette he wanted to be reelected and see others win races, and then pass a massive investment plan to build more housing, so there is more housing available for Pennsylvanians.
• “To me it is first about winning the election and stopping the chaos, cruelty and the corruption, and it is about policies that are going to make people’s lives better,” he said.
• “I know that we are getting together here at a time when there’s a lot of darkness in the world,” Shapiro said to the larger group. “I am also mindful that it is at a time when it is hard to be a Democrat in Lycoming County,” he said.
• The governor said his arrival had a two-fold purpose: To thank people for the work they are doing in a tough part of the country and, secondly, to make clear that “from this darkness we are going to see a whole lot of light if we each do our part to save our democracy, and that is a team effort.”
• “I am also here to tell you that the last thing we need in Harrisburg is a governor who is going to be a rubber stamp for all that Donald Trump wants to do,” he said, a reference to his Republican opponent.
• “We win all of those and put Democrats in charge of the U.S. House of Representatives,” he said. “You’ve got the power to do that — right here in Pennsylvania — right here in Lycoming County.”

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