Governor Josh Shapiro
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Dem Governor Destroys Trump in Most Powerful Speech Yet · 30 Apr 2025
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They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have. We must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box.
They must feel in their bones that when we survive this shameful episode of American history with our democracy intact, because we have no alternative but to do just that, that we will relegate their portraits to the museum halls reserved for tyrants and traitors.
And when the courage of our civic leaders wavers, when they fail to stand up for our country in its moment of greatest need, then we should remind them that cowardice always comes at a cost. In the world's most successful republic, No generation of Americans has escaped our true inheritance, the test that we are given that asks how hard we are willing to fight to keep our society free.
It was selfish to think that ours would be the first. But the fact that we are still here debating the question tells me our predecessors never failed this test in the past, often in situations just as dire as the one in front of us. Cowardice can be contagious, but so too can courage. And courage born during times when complacency beckons like a siren call is the most important kind of all.
Just as the hope that we hold onto in the darkness shines with its own special light. These days, I cling to the courage and the hope demonstrated by Andy and Gavin and Lucy. Courage and hope that risks limbs and livelihoods to go to the most visible place possible, to wave a sign or to post an upside down flag and remind everyone that what we do and what we don't do matters.
So tonight, I'm telling you what I'm willing to do, and that's fight for our democracy, for our liberty, for the opportunity for all of our people to live lives that are meaningful and free. And I see around me tonight a room full of people who are ready to do the same. So I have one question for all of you, Granite Staters. Are you ready for the fight?
For real, Granite Staters, are you ready for the fight? Good night, New Hampshire. God bless you and God bless these United States.
Well, thanks, Ben. And I'm so excited to be, especially with my friends, the fellow governors and with you, Ben. I think all of us are deeply, deeply concerned about what's happening across the country. And, of course, 100 days in, it's been, well, a disastrous administration for the American people. Essentially, we've seen Donald Trump do exactly the opposite of what he said he was going to do.
And 100 days in, we've seen prices go up. We've seen, you know, it's hard to buy a car, hard to buy a house. Your tomatoes, lettuce and beer at the grocery store, prices have gone up. And, of course, when he promised that he was going to bring peace to Ukraine and around the world, the opposite has happened. There have been, you know, more attacks on our friends and our allies.
and more involvement by the United States military across the world. And then finally, I just say that the rights of our friends and family, our neighbors, American citizens across this great country, are being taken away.
And I gave a speech on Sunday night talking about, well, in part about habeas corpus, about the government doesn't have a right to just make you disappear or snatch you off the street without giving you the right to a hearing. And we're seeing that happening to legal residents of the United States. And now we've seen it happen to U.S. citizens.
So I'm deeply concerned about what the next hundred days and frankly, the next thousand days will be like.
Well, yeah, thank you, Ben. And to my fellow governors, I couldn't be more proud than to be with these folks that are taking that fight. Look, I don't think any of us are surprised. This is where Donald Trump ended up. It's what he said, and he's carrying those things out. I think for us here in Minnesota,
guidance to my team and to the administration and to folks who care, and that's a lot of folks taking to the streets, we protect the most vulnerable and we protect our gains. We have an opportunity to prove a different way of governing, governing that improves lives, whether that's providing food for children or making sure our folks are covered with healthcare.
have access to free college and some help owning homes. Those are the things that people are looking for. So look, Trump is a disaster, which we knew he would. I think it gives us an opportunity. And what you're seeing is people rising up and showing that there's a better way. We can govern with compassion. We can govern with a sense of vision and innovation, and we can govern effectively.
So I think here in Minnesota, we're continuing to show that there's a better and a different way to do this. We collaborate with these governors that are on with me tonight and others across the country to ways that we can make sure that we're continuing to show as many people as that is possible.
And so this thing's going to get a little bit bumpy, but I think you're seeing right now folks are turning out. I do want to give a huge shout out to, I got neighbors. These states are my neighbors, but Our Canadian neighbors, they know that this is wrong. They stood up to it. It provides a lot of momentum coming out of the Wisconsin special Supreme Court election.
And I think the mobilization that's happening out there. So it's 100 days of just crap. We've got 500 plus till the midterms. But the work has started. Folks know that. And I think they're looking to see. folks stand in the breach and push back. So I'm glad to be with you, Ben. I want to give a thank you to folks who took time out of your busy lives to tune in tonight.
We're all in this together and I'm just glad you're here.
Well, Ben, it's great to be with you and great to be with my friends and colleagues on this. You know, I underscore everything said about the economy. The one thing that he ran on, he has been an abysmal failure, only making life more expensive, more difficult for residents, for businesses. for our economy. I also just want to comment too, you know, I was Attorney General for two terms.
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