{"id":232347,"date":"2026-07-01T00:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232347\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T00:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T00:21:21","slug":"mccormick-shows-off-pennsylvanias-state-fair-booth-after-overruling-shapiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232347\/","title":{"rendered":"McCormick shows off Pennsylvania’s state fair booth after overruling Shapiro"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bipartisan push<\/a> to include Pennsylvania<\/a> in the state fair overruled Gov. Josh Shapiro<\/a>\u2019s (D-PA) claim that there weren\u2019t any businesses from the state interested in being featured at the festival that\u2019s highlighting all 50 states in honor of America\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n

\u201cPennsylvania is where America\u2019s story began, and there was no way we were going to let the Commonwealth go unrepresented during our Nation\u2019s 250th birthday celebration,\u201d McCormick said in a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shapiro confirmed last week that Pennsylvania would not be represented at the 16-day Great American State Fair run by Freedom 250, a private-public organization President Donald Trump<\/a> created to organize festivities for the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In an interview<\/a> with the New Republic, Shapiro said he pulled the state out of the fair because of a lack of interest from sponsors, adding that his aides asked companies in the state if they would like to be part of it but \u201cnone were interested.\u201d<\/p>\n

But McCormick and Fetterman secured private-industry sponsors to host Pennsylvania\u2019s booth at the fair at \u201cno cost to taxpayers.\u201d The sponsors said they decided to be part of the event due to Pennsylvania\u2019s \u201cimportant\u201d place in the nation\u2019s founding.<\/p>\n

\u201cPennsylvania\u2019s story is simply too important to be missing from our nation\u2019s capital during America\u2019s 250th birthday celebration,\u201d Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry President and CEO Luke Bernstein said. \u201cThe Keystone State belongs front and center \u2014 and we\u2019re excited to help showcase the people, businesses, and innovation that continue to shape America\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The booth will include the Pennsylvania Manufacturers\u2019 Association, the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, and the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry.<\/p>\n

In the video McCormick posted<\/a>, these sponsors are highlighted in the booth, along with other artifacts showcasing the state\u2019s role in American history.<\/p>\n

McCormick posted another video<\/a> about Pennsylvania\u2019s booth that had his chief of staff, Mark Isakowitz, praising it, saying it\u2019s the \u201cnicest booth\u201d on the National Mall.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve had an army of volunteers come down here and now look, you have Pennsylvanians and people from all over the country seeing what Pennsylvania is all about,\u201d Isakowitz said. \u201cIt was a great volunteer citizens\u2019 effort to get from Saturday to where we are now. Unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Attendees will be able to see Pennsylvania\u2019s booth for themselves at the Great American State Fair through July 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bipartisan push to include Pennsylvania in the state fair overruled Gov. Josh Shapiro\u2019s (D-PA) claim that there…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4000,21271,30411,4283,33,28,30,29,2286],"class_list":["post-232347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-america-250","tag-american-history","tag-david-mccormick","tag-john-fetterman","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-washington-d-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232347","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=232347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}