{"id":303098,"date":"2026-10-09T13:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303098\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T13:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T13:30:11","slug":"former-president-obama-endorses-josh-shapiro-for-pennsylvania-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303098\/","title":{"rendered":"Former President Obama endorses Josh Shapiro for Pennsylvania governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Former President Barack Obama is endorsing Josh Shapiro for reelection in Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p>The former president released a video on Friday saying Gov. Shapiro has &#8220;gotten stuff done for the people of Pennsylvania.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>In the 45 second video, Obama also talked about how Shapiro was one of his earliest supporters, something the Governor wrote about in his book released earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>Obama isn&#8217;t the only president to get involved in the Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Race. <\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump endorsed Republican candidate and state treasurer Stacy Garrity. <\/p>\n<p>In a video posted to Truth Social, Trump praised Garrity saying she wouldn&#8217;t let down the people of Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p>Recent polling has Gov. Shapiro ahead of Garrity. According to data released by Quinnipiac University on Wednesday, 59% of likely voters said they would vote for Shapiro.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE | <a href=\"https:\/\/local21news.com\/news\/local\/gov-josh-shapiro-holds-healthy-lead-over-stacy-garrity-1-month-before-midterms-poll-democrat-republican-independent-vote-election-pennsylvania-pa-governor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gov. Josh Shapiro holds healthy lead over Stacy Garrity 1 month before midterms: poll<\/a><\/p>\n<p>34% of voters said they would vote for Garrity, 2% said they would vote for Libertarian candidate Ken Krawchuk, and another 4% said they were undecided.<\/p>\n<p>Election day is November 3. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHP) \u2014 Former President Barack Obama is endorsing Josh Shapiro for reelection in Pennsylvania. The former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-303098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303098","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=303098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}