Governor Josh Shapiro
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562 appearances
27 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
Governor Josh Shapiro’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it's not always gone through the rigors of a 60-minute interview where you have to know exactly all the facts or else you'll be called out on it because facts sometimes are collateral damage to this war on truth that we have right now. But that being said, go into the places that aren't always comfortable for us as leaders of our party and of our states and to meet people where they are.
So have a robust, robust social media communications strategy. the traditional and not so traditional, the new and emerging ways to connect with people. But as you've heard from my friends, you can't sit behind your desk. You know, we do have loud platforms. I have the New York City media market. There's nothing more challenging but also more expansive.
And that gives me an opportunity as I'm going out there and I'm literally on the roadshow. I was in a childcare center this morning telling the parents about how I'm giving them more money for childcare because I knew what it was like when I had to leave my job with Senator Moynihan as a young woman because there was no childcare. So that reminds me all the time of being more relatable to people.
We all have our own life's experiences. And I tell him I never forget the people who are still in the trailer park that my parents used to live in when they first started married life. They're still there. I still go to the diner in that neighborhood and talk to people.
And I go by the old steel plant and think about the people that feel like they're abandoned because of their jobs being shipped overseas or elsewhere. So. Use your own stories and connect with people. Don't talk down to people. We don't need any more policies or plans or prescriptions for success.
We don't need a 20-point plan on how to make people feel that they've got more money back in their pocket. Be more relatable. Let them understand. empathy and emotion are important to convey as well. So we're not just by the book Democrats. We know better than everybody else. We don't. We're always learning. And we learn more by reaching out of our comfort zone and going into the spaces.
Like when I got elected in the most Republican district in the entire state of New York a few years ago during the Tea Party revolution, I went to the diners. I went to one diner. This one man said, Not only have I never voted for a Democrat, I've never even seen a Democrat. So I went to those places, uncomfortable, but eventually you can win people over.
You slap them on the back, you find a shared experience. All my grandparents came from Ireland, their family were dairy farmers. So there is a way that we need to be more relatable and stop talking down to people, let them know we understand them, but find the different ways that people are reaching out. Because the message we have for 2026 and 2028, it has to fit on a bumper sticker.
Not to make America great again. We know that was a disaster, but it wasn't a disaster marketing wise. You know what I'm saying? Everybody knew what that meant. We need to distill our message as the one that's bringing hope to bringing back our country and fighting for the working class, as you've heard from my colleagues. So we've got the answers.
It's how we convey them is what is going to be our next challenge. And we'll get it right.
Let's start with it's time to fight. Everybody has to get up, stand up, speak out, show up. And if you can't go somewhere to do that, well, go online and make sure you're speaking up and showing up online. And if you can't do that, how about calling your congressperson, your senator, to make your voice heard? Everybody has got to...
stand up for not only what's best for themselves and their families, but also their neighbors and their friends. And I'm seeing that. Here's the thing that I want to say to everybody.
You should have a lot of hope because I'm seeing Republicans and Democrats showing up to make their voices heard, to stand up for veterans who've lost their services, to stand up for those who are receiving Social Security, but whose Social Security offices are closing. And so they've got to show up in order to get their social security check. Medicaid is under attack.
And I think everybody understands that if you're not on Medicaid, someone you know needs medical care and they rely upon Medicaid. And I'm seeing families show up for other families. I'm seeing veterans show up for each other. And many of us who come from a military family are showing up for our veterans as well.
I want to say this is a moment when we have an opportunity to really stand up for each other. It's who we are as Americans. It's what we ought to be doing. And I'm as much as I am challenged and all of us are by what Donald Trump and his gang in the White House are doing. I also see that the American people are standing up and getting the job done of making their voices heard.
We're going to see a real momentum over the next few months and over the next year. And by November of 2026, we're going to take the Congress back because of everyone listening to this podcast and Americans all across the country.
Well, Ben, thank you. Thanks, Midas Touch Network and to my fellow governors. I'm so proud to stand with you. Look, let's get a couple ground rules first. You can't appease authoritarianism. Call out their crap and just know that that's who they are. Stand proud. on our progressive values. Stand proud that we're feeding children. Stand proud that we care about the environment.
Stand proud and get out there and don't try and find an easy way to this. This is a way that we have to have policies that improve people's lives and then find a lane. Find your lane, everybody who's out there, whatever it is. If you're good at something, do that. If you'd rather do something else, get there.
I will associate myself as a, we were colleagues together, Governor Hochul and I, show up at those things. It makes a difference. Call their offices. They work for you. Make them work for you. And I'm telling you, it's working. We've had, some of us have shown up in Omaha. There's a whole bunch of folks stopping through that Beautiful blue dot. Don't anybody diss Nebraska. They turn out in Omaha.
They've got a GOP congressman in a district that is ours and should be one. You know what's happening to him now? He thinks maybe we shouldn't cut Medicaid. And this weekend he was talking about he might want to spend more time with his family instead of running again. That's a good idea. And we need to keep the pressure on every single one of these. So I thank you for doing this.
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