Harrisburg – the treasurer of Pennsylvania, Stacy Garrita, seriously considers the escape for the governor in 2026, when the GOP race for the challenge of Governor Josh Shapiro warms up.
Garrita, who replaced Shapiro as the most critical number of votes in Pennsylvania in history, when she won the re -election last year, was a leading perspective for republican people from the fact that they have a greater challenge Shapiro, an extremely popular governor of the first term. Shapiro, Democrat, won in 2022 with 15 percentage points, i.e. 800,000 votes and apparently looks at the White House in 2028.
During the months, Garrites have caught questions about whether she was considering escaping for the governor, while potential GOP candidates, such as American representative Dan Meuser (R., Pa.), And the candidate for the governor’s governor in 2022 Sen. Doug Mastriano (R., Franklin), began to test the water to start in future elections in half.
But in recent weeks, Garrita has been teasing the offer of the governor’s residence in social media and in interviews, whose culmination was a speech, which she delivered last weekend of the leadership conference in Pennsylvania in Harrisburg. The conference was the first critical meeting for Republicans from Pennsylvania since their broad wins in the November elections.
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“The Keystone state sent President Trump back to the White House, [former U.S. Sen.] Bob Casey returned to Scranton, for the first time in over a decade he chose the Republican Prosecutor General, “said Garrity.
“And in November, Keystone will send a Republican to the governor’s residence,” she added with a smile, stopping to the applause of the audience.
Garrita is a retired colonel of the American army and former corporate director who managed to define, leading a critical (but often unknown) state office. She paid state accounts with slight controversy and focused on increasing the transparency of the office’s work. She maintained affable working relationships with Shapiro, remaining an avid supporter of President Donald Trump. Over the years, Garrita, one of the few women serving in the whole condition, has grown as a party leader in Pennsylvania.
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In 2004, while serving the combat arrangement in the Middle East, she gained the nickname “Angel of the Desert” for her humanitarian approach to prison at Camp Bucca in Iraq.
The field of any GOP candidates has increased. Senator of State Scott Martin (R., Lancaster), who ran into the GOP Governor’s Government in 2022, but eventually gave up the race, told journalists before the Harrisburg conference that he also did not rule out another race.
Participants who participated in the annual Straw Conference survey in Pennsylvania, mostly chose Garrites as their favorite potential candidate for the governor in 2026, and 41% of 267 participants will choose it. Meuser received the second main voices, with 9%, followed by Mastriano with 6%, senator Kristin Phillips-Hill (R., York) with 2%and Martin with 2%.
Several participants said that they hope that Garrita would decide to escape, citing her experience and military term as a treasurer as the main reasons why she would be a powerful opponent of Shapiro. One representative of GOP even greeted Garrita as a “governor”.
“I think she would be a fantastic governor with a head,” said Judy Zabel, who lives outside Scranton. “Her past has proven that she is a leader.”
“I am biased towards the treasurer of Garrita,” said Ryan Klein, an older at Pennsylvania State University and president of Penn State College Republicans. “I would like to see her escape. I think it would be really good for the community.”
Joe Phillips from Berks said that he wants Meuser to run away, but thinks that Garrity has the best chance at this point to win universal elections.
Meuser, who also spoke at the GOP leaders conference, has already started to make his likely governors’ field for voters, including in the law of everyday television performances and personal events, such as his appearance in Germanown last month, mainly a black district in Philadelphia, which went to the former vice president of Kamala Harris in November with 78% of the vote.
“To have the first program of America, we must have a governor, my friends,” said the crowd of Meuser. “We definitely need a governor who has a plan for Pennsylvania, not a plan for Pennsylvania Avenue.”
First governor?
Pennsylvania never had a governor.
And the 60 -year -old Garrita was not in Pennsylvania’s politics. In 2020, she won a long campaign because of the current democrat Joe Torselli, which is ahead of her from 11 to 1. Throughout this time she remained an avid supporter of Trump, as evidenced by her speech last Friday, praising the first few months of Trump in the White House and comparing the work she does in Pennsylvania to keep the wrong payments to Elon Musk’s government.
“Imagine what [Trump’s detractors] They are planning to do it now when they know that he means business, “said Garrita.” Because it already brings results that are so great for the American people. But you know what? Terrible for illegal aliens, deep state and radical leftists. “
Like everyone’s hope, GarriTy has still not said that she officially joins the governor’s race. But Garrity, which is circumscribed to two terms as the best fiscal guard this week, published this week on Facebook, which sounded similar to the precursor of the campaign announcement.
“It was an honor to serve as the first Republican treasurer for 16 years – and the first of rural Pennsylvania in over 40 years,” she wrote, later, “but today I believe that Pennsylvania is at a crossroads – and how many of you, I think about what will happen next.”
However, if he enters a competitive basic, Garrites will probably face criticism from other Republicans in connection with her work with Shapiro. Garrity recently praised Shapiro and maintains good working relationships with him. In February appearing at a press conference with ShapiroShe thanked him for his “involvement in providing our families, friends and neighbors on the rural Pennsylvania, there was no laggle.”
Both were unlikely since the Shapiro office was taken, and Shapiro could play a role in the Garrrit’s re -election, refusing to support a democratic candidate in the race, Erin McClelland. McClelland publicly criticized Shapiro for dealing with a complaint for sexual harassment against the former best adviser in his office, which led to a $ 295,000 settlement with the victim.
Mastriano also raised the idea of ​​running from Garrita, perhaps as her Governor of the lieutenant, paying attention to her popularity in her entire state and his grassroots supporters, the prospective refused to comment.
Adjustment: In the earlier version of this story, she incorrectly found how many bars were released in 2020. Torsella exceeds Garrita 11-1 in this race.
