Josh Shapiro
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I mean, remember the question you asked me, I don't know, three or four questions ago about you said, well, I only agree with 14% of what you agree with, you know, come join the party.
Look, my view is that we got to have a big tent.
And my view is that we've got to have a real debate around different ideas.
And just because I might not agree with you on these three things, I might agree with you on something else.
Listen,
I'm sitting behind my desk here in the governor's office.
This is where I negotiate bills and budgets and other things.
If I threw everybody out of my office that I didn't agree with 100% of the time, we'd never get anything done.
When I sit down across the table from a Republican lawmaker, I say, what are the 10 things you want to accomplish?
I tell him the 10 things I want to accomplish.
And you know what?
We're not going to agree on all 10, but if we agree on three or four...
I'd rather focus on those three or four things where we can find common ground than the five, six, seven things where we're just going to disagree.
And so I think if you want to make progress, you've got to figure out how to create majorities, whether it's a majority in the legislature to get a bill to my desk, a majority come election time to win an election.
You've got to find ways to bring people together and find common ground and not just focus exclusively on our differences.
I actually think the Congress of the United States, the leadership there, I mean, they're frankly kind of sad, pathetic people.
And let me explain why.
Right.
You put what's his name?
Johnson in is a speaker.