Governor Josh Shapiro of Abington Township announced today that his campaign for governor ended with roughly $33 million raised in 2025.
According to CBS News, his campaign said the amount is a finance record for any contending governor in Pennsylvania history. Shapiro set the previous record with $13.4 million at the start of 2022 and went on to spend more than $70 million on the race, a state campaign spending record at the time.
Shapiro is expected to face state Treasurer Stacy Garrity as his Republican opponent in the fall. Garrity’s election would make her Pennsylvania’s first female governor.
Garrity, 61, a retired U.S. Army colonel and former corporate executive, officially announced her bid in August 2025. NBC News reported that she has not yet published her fundraising numbers. The deadline to file campaign finance reports with the state is January 31.
“We already knew Josh Shapiro spent the better part of 2025 traveling to Nantucket, Aspen, and L.A. to raise money from left-wing donors, so it doesn’t surprise us one bit that he has their millions sitting in his bank account,” Matt Beynon, a Garrity campaign spokesman, said in a statement. “The truth is that Josh Shapiro ignored the problems facing hardworking Pennsylvanians to gallivant around the country to raise money from liberal billionaires.”
Garrity appeared on CBS 21 News’ “Face the State” in late December to discuss her plans for the state if elected. The interview is below:
According to CBS 21 News, Shapiro will kick off his reelection campaign on Thursday, January 8 with an event in Philadelphia. As of January 1, he became the highest-paid governor in the United States following an automatic cost-of-living adjustment.
In related news, Shapiro criticized President Donald Trump on Monday for engaging in a “regime change war” following the capture and extract the now-deposed leader of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.
“Now, the president comes out and says we’re going to run Venezuela. I don’t know what that means. It sounds like a massive nation-building project with basically no plan for what comes next, other than him stealing Venezuela’s oil to enrich his friends,” Shapiro said during an interview on KDKA NewsRadio in Pittsburgh.
Representative Madeleine Dean of Glenside said she’s concerned the president has started a war and that “the president cannot legally take over another country”, as reported by WHYY.
“We’re going to run a sovereign nation,” she said. “He does not have that unilateral authority.”
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