Governor Josh Shapiro
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562 appearances
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2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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We're on here today because this is one of the great outlets, one of the great channels that really reaches people. So many people listen to Ben. And going on, and I saw this with Tim Walz when he was running for vice president. He went on just about every kind of podcast that you could possibly go on. He was everywhere. We've got to do that, all of us,
and make sure that the Democratic message of standing up for working families is heard everywhere and directly to people who are online and listening.
Yeah, well, Henry, thanks for the question. And I look, you've got these three governors myself. I'm partial towards governors. I'll just say that they're out there. But we need everybody on the field. We need everybody out there filling a lane and taking a message. Donald Trump understands this. He sucks up so much oxygen. He's the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
And the debate that's happening right now, could 100 people defeat a gorilla? I'd like to find out with 100 of us. to get out there and fill these lanes. Tell them what we're doing. Show them a difference. Show them the fight that people are ready to lead, and we need to be alongside of them. And then when we gain power, I think this is really critical.
These governors you have on here, I'm going to go with what Governor Pritzker said. These are consequential governors that have passed important legislation, not to get themselves reelected, they did it to improve lives. And this idea that when you win an election, don't bank that political capital, burn it as quickly as possible.
And I will tell you, someone asked me if I've learned anything from Donald Trump. I learned this. We need to move as aggressively and as fast as Donald Trump has moved with our progressive policies. We need to expand health care. We need to make access to it more affordable. We need to make sure education is more affordable.
We need to make housing more affordable, not talk about it, not to have a better idea than them. The thing that governors do They actually implement it and get it in. So I think now if someone's lane is to do their own podcast, do the podcast. If somebody's lane is to do large rallies, we see Bernie Sanders and AOC out there.
We see Chris Murphy out there, governors, Andy Beshear, this group here, everybody out there and state house members. I see it doing it to flood the zone. Talk about what can be improved. Make it clear that that he's failing. They know that. But tell them what we're going to do. And I would just tell all of us when we win. And this thing starts when we hold the governor in New Jersey.
And when we win back the governorship in Virginia, Donald Trump becomes a lame duck and we run as fast and as hard as we can. And we win. Start putting the plans together. In January of 27, we need to be passing legislation that improves people's lives. As he's recklessly tearing things down, we need to aggressively build them up. So Henry's on the right spot.
I want to thank my fellow governors who are on here tonight. And they're right. This is one way of doing it. But everybody's finding their niche. And we're the 100 gorillas. And I'll bet on us against him on this one.
All right. Thank you, Coach Walls. You know, I agree with everything that my colleagues have to say. And, you know, I'll just I'll just add to it. You know, I was really moved hearing from Deanna earlier in the night. I was raised by a single mom and she went back to work, became a school nurse to take care of us. You know, we've got to get out and fight for people and we've got to.
make it clear to people the things that donald trump is doing here's the action here's the consequence and we need to continue to stand up to him and to speak out against what he is doing when he are doing when he's doing things that hurt people that hurt our economy tank our economy are illegal and unconstitutional i think that is really important right now i'm not sure that people who voted for donald trump voted
to have their dad not be able to get care at the VA because they laid off all the doctors. And I'm not sure that people voted for Donald Trump to fire all the scientists and the people who are trying to cure cancer right now. They certainly, I think, didn't vote for him to raise prices, right, and raise costs. Nobody wants that, but that's what's happening.
So we both need to be really clear about that and then show the contrast. Here's what we're for. You know, all of us, the four of us and our colleagues, we want to fund education. We want people to have health care. We want people to be able to afford a house. We want people to be able to go to school if they want and then get a job and have a career and growth.
We don't want moms like Deanna struggling. And by the way, not everybody is in a position to go to those town halls or go to those congressional offices because moms like Deanna got to take care of her son. So everybody's got to find that lane and step up and fill that role. An example of what I'm talking about when I say draw the contrast, I cut taxes in Massachusetts.
I'm the first governor in 20 years to do that. This spring, because I wanted people to understand and feel that impact, I did a whole roadshow. And I focused on showing up in places where parents were, where seniors were, because among the things we did is we provided the country's most generous tax credit for families with kids or dependents at home.
And I wanted people to know as they were doing their taxes, they had the benefit of that. I went to all these senior centers because I wanted them to know that we doubled the amount that they're going to get back in a refund this year. And, you know, I think every time we take actions, whether it's stockpiling Mifepristone or
Streamlining permitting so that we can bring more clean energy on and modernize the grid. We got to be out there telling people, showing people what we're doing and how it impacts their life in real ways. And, you know, I know that with that, Democrats are going to have success because I know what we believe in. I know what we fight for and I know who we fight for.
All right, the answer is not simple because we've heard it all from all my friends here. I also think, yeah, we talk about different platforms of communication. We all know how to go on cable news. We're invited all the time and that's great. But how do you amplify beyond that to people who are not watching MSNBC or CNN?
And the answer is you do have to be creative and have, I would say, surround yourself with young people and ask them where they're getting their news from. We know most people are getting their news from Facebook. They're getting their news from TikTok.
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