The comments of the American representative Dan Meuser were compact, but they had all the designations of the Governor’s Governor’s speeches from outside the city of Congressmen trying to refer to Philadelphians.
“I am not from here”, Meuser, a Republican who represents the north -eastern Pennsylvania and comes from New York, he said to a miniature audience in the space of events in Germantown on Wednesday. “But I will tell you: Philadelphia is my favorite city in the world and it will always be like that.”
The appearance of President Donald Trump’s long -time ally in mainly a black district, in which 78% voted for the vice president of Kamali Harris last year, was promoted as a social event – and the door was open to everyone – but the overtones for Meuser put the basis for a possible 2026 run for the governor of Pennsylvania.
While Philadelphia voted for Harris, Trump got more votes last year than in the 2020 elections, and Republicans see an opportunity in a democratic fortress. Meuser confirmed that he was considering running against the government of Josh Shapiro, an extremely popular governor of the first democratic governor, repeating him in an interview with Newsmax last week. He is a repeated guest on conservative cable television, including Fox. His guest to Trump’s address to the congress last month was Brian Kilmeade, Cohost Fox & Friends.
“I will tell you that you can do a lot more in the governor’s office,” said Meuser at the Treasures night club and the space of events, when people ate southern and Chinese food from the supplied buffet.
“And I’m going to come back. You’ll see me more because there is a really good chance that we – and I mean that we – intend to take part in the executive office of the Pennsylvania community and provide great things for our great community. And that would be a plan.”
Questions about Medicaid, but not many answers
The event was led by Xavier Devereux and co -founders for for Self Coalition.
“Politicians, on whom you are angry, is not in this room,” said Devereux to the audience when he succeeded. “We brought them here because of the fools we had dealt with for 60 years.”
Devereux participated in an event organized by Meuser and other members of the GOP Congress in Washington during the inauguration of Trump and conducted a campaign with Meuser for Trump in the city in the summer.
The event on Wednesday began about an hour tardy. The businessman from Atlanta took 30 minutes to talk about his company Zielona Steel and hopes to build inexpensive apartments in Philadelphia. Meuser and a republican state representative Dave Zimmerman, who was also invited to a speech, did not start turning to the crowd only about 20:30, 2.5 hours after the event and after most people came out.
While the room consisted mainly of people who previously supported republican campaigns in the city and their guests, was open to everyone, including some democrats.
Former representative of the state of Stephen Kinsey, a democrat of Germanown, said that he came in a spirit of bilateral and because he wanted to hear how politicians were turning to his community.
“You know, we can sit and criticize the president, or we can try to break away and get selected officials such as Congressmen and others to recognize what is happening.”
Participants received notate cards to save questions about questions and answers. Judy Pinkney, all his life Democrat from the north -eastern Philadelphia, said that she wanted to ask if GOP would cut Medicaid as part of the upcoming budget solution.
“I go to the older center and complain about the fact that they lose food vouchers and lose Medicaid and Medicare,” Inquirer said. “They are afraid of all this. This is a very sad situation.”
Pinkney said that she appreciated politicians coming to the speech while she wanted to answer. But ultimately she didn’t get many.
Before Meuser and Zimmerman took the floor, the Zimmerman employee presented them about four decided questions that he read aloud, none of the Medicaid cuts or government cuts.
The event took place at the time of rapid government reductions, which Republicans are under pressure from their voters to answer and as GOP leadership He encouraged them to avoid events in the town hall. Meuser promised to host the town hall in his district. American representatives Ryan Mackenzie from Berks and Rob Bresnahan from Lackawanna, both Republicans of first graders, have the tele-Miasta halls next week. Meanwhile, democrats in the state began to keep the apparent town hall to cause a lack of open public forums.
Before Wednesday’s event, the chairwoman of the Democratic Party Sharif Street joined local democratic representatives in Germanown, to blow up the event and Republicans in Congress for supporting Trump’s policy, including recent cuts of federal programs and employees and employees and Expected cuts to Medicaid.
“You come to the black and brown community, such as Germanown … and hey, everything is fine. You can go wherever you want in Pennsylvania, right?” Andre Carroll, who represents the district, said. “But what can you not do? You can’t limit social insurance. You can’t reduce Medicaid. You can’t slow down thousands of federal employees … Put the Education Department, and then come here and tell us that you will appreciate us. We appreciate us if you do your damn job, eliminate the oath that you served it seriously and protect people.”
After the protests, Carroll was welcomed in the event and stayed for a moment. Meuser later confirmed him during comments to the crowd, although he misunderstand the name of the legislator, calling him “Dante Carroll”.
“I have many Democrat friends”
In addition to Meuser, the Doug Mastriano senator (R., Franklin) said that he was considering running against Shapiro for the second time. Treasurer Stacy Garrita, who won a record number of votes in November, also did not rule out the run.
Before the Governor’s Government race, there is over a year, but Meuser presented some appeals that he would probably give on the campaign trail. He noticed that although he was a transplant of Pennsylvania, he is a fully fan of Philadelphia Eagles. He was cautious in how he described his relationship with Trump, a close ally he actively defended.
“You know, with President Trump, like him or not, he is our president,” said Meuser. “I know him personally, and he is a much better person than anyone in the media who ever presents him. We have a republican house, but I have many democratic friends. [Democratic U.S. Rep.] Dwight Evans is my friend. “
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Meuser noticed that Philadelphia has problems – with education, apartments and crime – although he presented some specific ideas for their solution. The second largest city city, Pittsburgh, which is taking place this year, criticized the mayor’s race this year.
“You know, for me Philadelphia, I come in. It looks nice, right? … I go to Pittsburgh. I don’t know what happened there, but, but since Covid hit, Pittsburgh has gone back,” said Meuser.
“And if it is not the highest priority … Our current governor and our former governor is outside me.”
Shapiro spokesman refused to comment, but noticed the last state investment in the amount of $ 62 million in Pittsburgh, which is in the process of a larger plan to rebuild Śródmieście.
