Josh Shapiro will take office as governor with a mandate from Pennsylvania voters

[FakeNoose]

(link) https://www.post-gazette.com/news/election2022/2022/11/16/josh-shapiro-governor-pennsylvania-legislature/stories/202211150093

HARRISBURG — Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor-elect, will take office with a decisive mandate from voters, who overwhelmingly rejected a Republican drive to pare back abortion rights and voting laws in the premier battleground state.

The state's two-term attorney general, Mr. Shapiro scored a massive 14 percentage-point win over Republican rival Doug Mastriano in last week’s midterm election, smashed state campaign finance records and became the first candidate since 1966 to succeed a governor of the same party in Pennsylvania.

Democrats in the state also flipped a U.S. Senate seat — just the second time since the Civil War that the state elected two Democrats to the chamber — while winning a majority of the state's congressional seats and possibly even control of the state House of Representatives for the first time in 12 years.

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said the election results showed voters' eagerness to protect abortion rights and the sanctity of elections from subversion by far-right Republicans who promoted former President Donald Trump's unfounded claims about voter fraud in his 2020 loss.

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Shapiro has pledged to tighten up the voting laws in PA, something that needs to be done quickly with 2024 looming in the future. He has already signaled his position on abortion rights, public school funding and other issues during his campaign.

[SheltieLover]

1. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

[BumRushDaShow]

2. I am glad

he will have a Democratic-majority state House and state Supreme Court!!!

On of the hurdles will be getting a temporary appointment to the state Supreme Court ahead of a special election (if that is the way Shapiro will go as the special election is going to need to be scheduled and am not sure if that will be pushed to the next Primary date which based on what I just found for the Philly mayoral race, is listed in May (i.e., May 16, 2023... but the special could be earlier).