{"id":108759,"date":"2026-02-09T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108759\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:00:11","slug":"pennsylvania-republican-party-endorses-richey-for-lt-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108759\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Republican Party endorses Richey for Lt. Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) \u2014 The Republican Party of Pennsylvania announced its endorsement for Lt. Governor this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jason Richey, an attorney from Pittsburgh, is the GOP\u2019s pick for the post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He was chosen by State Committee members from across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the party, he is \u201ca seasoned attorney, community leader, and the Chairman of the Republican Committee of Allegheny County.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The GOP endorsed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/pennsylvania-republican-general-assembly-leaders-144237567.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Stacy Garrity for Governor in August.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stacy Garrity for Governor in August.<\/a> She, in turn, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/garrity-endorses-jason-richey-pennsylvania-152920070.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:endorsed Richey in late January.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">endorsed Richey in late January.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get the latest Pennsylvania politics and election news with <a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.abc27.com\/join\/6sd\/signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:abc27 newsletters;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">abc27 newsletters<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Also this weekend, the Democratic Party announced their endorsements for Governor and Lt. Governor, choosing incumbents Josh Shapiro and Austin Davis respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) \u2014 The Republican Party of Pennsylvania announced its endorsement for Lt. Governor this weekend. Jason&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6375,48793,49291,28,30,29,5085],"class_list":["post-108759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-democratic-party","tag-jason-richey","tag-lt-governor","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}