Josh Shapiro

And by the way, you know, in the palace of truth and justice, you talk to those folks.

They know that they didn't need that tax cut.

And what happens as a result of that is I've got.

500,000 Pennsylvanians who are going to lose their health care.

I've got 120,000 who have already lost their health care.

About another 320,000 or so were likely to lose Medicaid next year.

I've got 26 rural hospitals that are likely to shutter because these are rural hospitals that are working on an operating deficit.

And they're relying so much on Medicaid, which has been slashed by the federal government.

So the idea that Donald Trump thought it was smart economic policy to give a tax cut to those who don't need it and pay for it with those who are struggling and create even greater economic disparities, that is going to hold back our entire economy.

Just take those 500,000 people who aren't going to have health care.

You're paying for that.

And I'm paying for that with our private insurance.

So what Donald Trump has done is shifted that burden onto those who are struggling, making it harder for them, adding additional costs to the middle class.

And I think that that is that that lacks.

Frankly, it's just dumb economic policy.

I think it's going to set us back.

Do you think that might have cost you all the election?

Well, look, I mean, I actually wrote about this in the book I recently published where, you know, it became clear to me that, you know, Joe Biden seeking another term was probably not in the best interest of the party or the country.

And I spoke to him directly about that and bluntly about that.

Once he made the decision to drop out with 100 and whatever days to go, you know, there were not many opportunities, I think, to have the kind of primary process that you're talking about.