Pennsylvania Democratic Candidate Touts Voting Rights As Election Issue
“When I’m your Governor, I’ll veto any bill that restricts mail-in voting,” Shapiro tweets
While Democrats in the nation’s capital appear to be flailing with the issue of voting rights, at least one candidate in the states hopes to use it as a winning election issue.
Stymied by two of their own, Senate Democrats last week failed to reform the filibuster so as to allow passage of voting rights legislation seen as critical in the face of widespread Republican laws at the state level to limit access to voting, particularly among those voting groups typically aligned with Democrats.
The setback was such a blow that the Democratic Party in the home state of one of the recalcitrant Democrats — Sen Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona — voted to officially censure her over her obstruction.
Meanwhile, the 2022 Democratic candidate for governor, Josh Shapiro, has embraced voting rights as part of his campaign to succeed incumbent Democratic Gov Tom Wolf, who is term-limited.
Shapiro is the incumbent attorney general of Pennsylvania.
He drew a clear line if voters choose him as the next governor.
“When I’m your Governor, I’ll veto any bill that restricts mail-in voting,” Shapiro tweeted.
Mail-in voting has been a prime target for Republican voter-suppression laws since former president Donald Trump baselessly and false complained about such ballots cast in 2020.
Shapiro, the presumptive Democratic nominee, will face the winner of Pennsylvania's Republican primary from among a currently large field of Republican hopefuls.
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