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Pennsylvania’s high-profile attorney general enters 2022 governor race By Reuters

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO. Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania Attorney General, speaks during the Girard College’s opening ceremony for the Greater Philadelphia King Day of Service. This was followed by a drive-through test event to determine if COVID-19 (underserved communi) is present.

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(Reuters) – Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania is the Democratic attorney General. He was a vocal critic of Trump’s election fraud allegations and he officially entered the 2022 governor’s race.

Shapiro, who for many months has indicated that he might run for the top state position, posted his first campaign clip online prior to a planned news conference with Pittsburgh supporters at 11 am. ET

Shapiro, 48 is the front-runner in the race to be the Democratic Party nominee. There is no one who has launched a campaign for Tom Wolf’s replacement, Democrat Tom Wolf. He cannot run for a fourth four-year term under the Constitution.

There are currently a few dozen Republican candidates for the race of 2022. This number is likely to increase as more candidates try to get endorsements from Trump, who has been the Republican Party’s de facto leader. Lou Barletta (65) and Bill McSwain (52), are both former U.S. Senators.

Shapiro is regarded as an emerging star of the party. He was a Montgomery County commissioner and former state representative. His criticisms of Trump’s false claims about widespread electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania (which Democrat Joe Biden won by over 80,000 votes) have been frequent.

Pennsylvania is an important battleground state where elections for president can be rigged either way. It also has the largest number of votes required to win the White House.

Shapiro stated in his campaign video that he has a track record of taking on the powerful and charged Republicans who are running to be governor with wanting to “undermine fair and free elections, remove voting rights and divide us permanently.”

Shapiro, a Republican state legislator, filed a suit in state court last month against Republican state lawmakers to stop them from trying to subpoena specific personal information about voters including Social Security numbers as part of their political review for 2020. The legal battle is ongoing.

Barletta released a statement in the context of which he sought tie Shapiro with the extreme left of Democratic Party and Wolf’s policies. Wolf has been under criticism from Republicans over his restrictions on business and other measures that impede the spread COVID-19.

Barletta said that his policies were dictated to him “by leftist activists” and that the Commonwealth’s residents had already been suffering enough.

Shapiro’s campaign clip also highlights his role in overseeing the grand jury investigation in 2018, which led to allegations of sexual abuse against 300 Roman Catholic priests from six Pennsylvania dioceses.

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