Josh Shapiro goes big for down-ballot Dems
Josh Shapiro is making his biggest midterm play yet — with a likely eye on 2028.
The Pennsylvania governor is pouring $3.3 million into a coordinated campaign launching this weekend to help Democrats in the nation’s biggest swing state flip four congressional seats and secure a governing trifecta in Harrisburg for the first time in three decades, according to details shared first with POLITICO.
Shapiro’s cash infusion is bankrolling what the Pennsylvania Democratic Party is calling the “biggest coordinated midterm effort” in the state’s history, according to a memo from Larry Hailsham Jr., the party’s executive director and a longtime Shapiro aide.
The “Rise Up Pennsylvania” initiative will continue to build out the party’s infrastructure, which already counts 27 field offices and nearly 100 full-time organizers across the state’s key battleground counties and districts. And it will include targeted outreach efforts to low-propensity, Black, Latino and Asian American voters.
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