{"id":303432,"date":"2026-10-10T00:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303432\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:02:15","slug":"obama-endorses-pennsylvania-gov-josh-shapiro-in-his-re-election-bid-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303432\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama endorses Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in his re-election bid"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Former President Barack Obama endorses Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro<\/a> in his reelection bid.<\/p>\n

“Pennsylvania, Governor Shapiro has your back \u2014 and in this election, I’m asking you to have his,” Obama said in the endorsement video first obtained by CBS News.<\/p>\n

The former president said that Shapiro is a leader who has demonstrated integrity and decency while in office.<\/p>\n

Shapiro first became governor in 2023 and is up for reelection. His rival is Republican state Treasurer Stacy Garrity.<\/p>\n

Josh Shapiro is a potential contender for the Democrats for president in 2028.<\/p>\n

He made news recently in his state for supporting legislation to ban flock cameras in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

“I think law enforcement needs to have tools to keep communities safe. Flock cameras are not a tool that I support,” he said last month.<\/p>\n

He also signed a bill in March mandating that cursive writing be taught in schools, arguing it was a fundamental skill kids should learn.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThey may not get why now, but that\u2019s how they\u2019ll sign their very first check \u2014 or maybe even someday, a bill that gets to the Governor\u2019s desk (trust me, you\u2019ll want good penmanship for that),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Other potential Democratic candidates for president include former Vice President Kamala Harris and California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (TNND) \u2014 Former President Barack Obama endorses Democratic Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in his reelection bid. “Pennsylvania,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4288,6632,3849,33,112132,28,30,29,35885,8060],"class_list":["post-303432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-4288","tag-democratic","tag-flock-cameras","tag-josh-shapiro","tag-obama","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-reelection","tag-stacy-garrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303432","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=303432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}