Pennsylvania’s two-term elected state Treasurer Stacy Garrity will seek the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s reelection bid in 2026.
Garrity does not seem to have the political chops to win Pennsylvania Republicans. PA is the purplest of states, but she’s from the Bibles-and-Meth part of the state and it really comes through when she speaks out loud into a camera. She won the race as Treasurer because Main Line Republicans want a “fiscal conservative” holding the purse strings, but I’d bet money that 90% of PA republicans have never seen her speak. Raising her profile will hurt her, especially as a Trumplican.
Garrity does not seem to have the political chops to win Pennsylvania Republicans. PA is the purplest of states, but she’s from the Bibles-and-Meth part of the state and it really comes through when she speaks out loud into a camera. She won the race as Treasurer because Main Line Republicans want a “fiscal conservative” holding the purse strings, but I’d bet money that 90% of PA republicans have never seen her speak. Raising her profile will hurt her, especially as a Trumplican.