{"id":159957,"date":"2026-04-07T23:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159957\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T23:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:53:08","slug":"shapiro-raises-10m-in-pennsylvania-governor-race-outpacing-gop-rival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159957\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapiro raises $10M in Pennsylvania governor race, outpacing GOP rival"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know!<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Gov. Josh Shapiro raised $10 million in the first quarter of 2026, according to his campaign finance report<\/a> released Tuesday. That\u2019s a record high for Pennsylvania gubernatorial races and around 10 times more than his likely Republican competition, Stacy Garrity, raised in the same period of time.\n<\/p>\n

Shapiro\u2019s haul is twice the $5 million he pulled during the first quarter of his first run for governor, which itself matched Tom Wolf\u2019s record.\n<\/p>\n

Shapiro entered the year with $30 million already in his campaign warchest and has spent just over $4.5 million, leaving him with $36 million going forward, though he will likely raise considerably more as November draws closer. Garrity carried over a little more than $1 million, spending more than half that in the last quarter, and is now left with about $1.5 million.\n <\/p>\n

\u201cThis remarkably strong showing underscores the broad support for Governor Shapiro\u2019s leadership and his reelection campaign \u2014 and builds on the Governor\u2019s significant momentum heading into this spring,\u201d the Shapiro campaign said in a statement. \u201cThis continued, historic fundraising strength comes as a result of contributions from all 67 counties across Pennsylvania and all 50 states.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Garrity\u2019s campaign said they are \u201chumbled by the support she has received \u2026 from hardworking Pennsylvanians who donated because they recognize that Pennsylvania needs a turnaround.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

In an email to WHYY News, campaign spokesperson Matt Beynon said Shapiro \u201cspent his time traveling to New York and Los Angeles to collect million dollar checks from liberal billionaire [sic] like Reid Hoffman.\u201d Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn who appears in the Jeffery Epstein files<\/a>, contributed in the past<\/a> but does not appear to have donated this cycle.\n<\/p>\n

Shapiro has made numerous national media appearances in the last year, including CNN<\/a>, MSNOW<\/a>, NBC<\/a> and even Comedy Central\u2019s \u201cThe Daily Show<\/a>,\u201d and is widely considered a contender for the Democratic primary for the 2028 race for president.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25694,451,72307,28,30,29,8060],"class_list":["post-159957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-elections-2026","tag-governor-josh-shapiro","tag-governor-race","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-stacy-garrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159957","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=159957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}