{"id":285265,"date":"2026-09-13T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285265\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:36:07","slug":"republican-stacy-garrity-campaigns-for-governor-in-philly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285265\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Stacy Garrity campaigns for governor in Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The Trump impact<\/p>\n<p>Garrity, a self-described ally of Donald Trump, was <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GarrityForPA\/status\/2016340303527997569\" rel=\"nofollow\">endorsed by the president<\/a> in January. Garrity told attendees at a fundraiser in February that she had to answer a single question from the president before he gave her his endorsement, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.witf.org\/2026\/02\/26\/one-question-led-to-republican-stacy-garrity-winning-trumps-endorsement-in-pennsylvania-governors-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaxon White for WITF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Garrity and the White House have since declined WITF\u2019s requests for information about the content of the question or her answer, but Garrity had previously joined some other Republicans in <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/pennsylvania-treasurer-stacy-garrity-governor-shapiro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">casting doubt<\/a> on the results of the 2020 election, which Joe Biden won. She has since publicly backed away <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesanews.org\/politics-government\/2026-01-12\/garrity-2020-election-trump-comments\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from those comments<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Trump invited Garrity to the White House for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/16VoTrfY6XI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in-person endorsement<\/a> in the Oval Office, during which he called her \u201ca spectacular person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, like Carroll, have criticized her closeness to the president, whose popularity <a href=\"https:\/\/whyy.org\/articles\/republican-midterm-convention-2026-pennsylvania-politicians\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has dropped significantly<\/a> during his second term.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe writing is on the wall,\u201d Carroll said. \u201cThe Republicans are on their last leg and they are desperately trying anything that they have in their arsenal to hold onto power. The thing is they have not made life more affordable. That was a promise from them. They have not delivered for working families. That was a promise from them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump\u2019s endorsement is helping some residents, like Sean Hunt, make a decision in the race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know President Trump. I\u2019m very familiar with his policies, and most of them are working very well, and she supports most of them,\u201d Hunt said at the Port Richmond event. \u201cSo it would just be good to put somebody who he backs, who\u2019s going to carry out his agenda, at the state level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hunt, a military contractor who recently retired from the Air Force, characterized the race as \u201ccapitalism versus socialism\u201d and said he went from being an independent voter to registering as a Republican after Trump became president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just like his style,\u201d he said. \u201cHe explains things very clearly, breaks it down to where anybody, if you just listen to what he\u2019s saying with all his business experience and wisdom, makes it very easy to understand.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump impact Garrity, a self-described ally of Donald Trump, was endorsed by the president in January. 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