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Will Pa. governor Josh Shapiro enter the 2024 Presidential race?

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Will Pa. governor Josh Shapiro enter the 2024 Presidential race?

Gov. Josh Shapiro has issued a flat denial about his presidential candidacy in a earlier interview. With Biden’s announcement, is Shapiro now a candidate?

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — On the heels of the gorgeous announcement that President Joe Biden is dropping out of the 2024 Presidential Election, eyes are turning to potential replacements on the Democratic ticket.

Just lately, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has seen questions on whether or not or not he would contemplate coming into the race if Biden have been to drop out.

Final month, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg visited Pennsylvania at an occasion with Shapiro, the place each males confronted questions on their candidacy for the presidency in 2028.

Buttigieg answered, saying that he has a job and we’ve a President.

Final week, a Shapiro spokesman gave us the next assertion when requested in regards to the governor’s presidential candidacy if Biden have been to drop out:

This kind of baseless hypothesis is only a distraction – and it’s unhelpful to carrying out what we have to do that November: defeat Donald Trump on the poll field.

In an interview with KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Shapiro mentioned that he wouldn’t be a candidate for president, and mentioned that he has each expectation that Biden will run once more.

When pressed if Biden drops out, would Shapiro contemplate it, he issued a flat denial:

“The reply is not any. I simply requested the great folks of Pennsylvania to be their governor,” Shapiro mentioned. “They honored me with this chance to have the job that I need and the job that I feel I can do good issues from to make folks’s lives higher. God keen, I’ll have the well being and the flexibility to proceed to serve, and I will serve all 4 years.” 

Now that Biden’s announcement has been made official, we’ve reached out to Shapiro’s workplace for remark, however have but to listen to again.

Shapiro posted the next assertion on Biden’s announcement on Twitter:

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