Bill Maher Couldn’t Get Josh Shapiro To Admit He’s Running For POTUS In 2028, But PA Governor Sure Tested Out Some Stump Speech Lines On ‘Real Time’ Tonight

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After a week of even greater political brinksmanship at home and abroad from Donald Trump, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro tonight weaved around admitting to HBO‘s Bill Maher host if he is running for POTUS in 2028. “I’m not an expert in the DC stuff,” Shapiro said on Real Time Friday as the latest leading Democrat getting exposure off Maher. “I try and stay as far away from that as I can.

I live in the real world in Pennsylvania, where we have to balance budgets.” However, often channeling Barack Obama, the first-term Keystone State governor was very clear that he felt Sen.

Chuck Schumer and top Democrats in the Senate blew it today. Shapiro was dismissive of their strategy of voting to move forward the GOP’s Trump approved six-month spending measure and avert a federal government shutdown starting this weekend. “I would have liked to see when Chuck Schumer had leverage here, to say we need A, B, C and D for the Democratic Party, and force the Republicans to meet him halfway on those issues and deliver something for the folks who are worried now,” Shapiro told Maher of some realpolitik the Senate Minority Leader could have demanded from the GOP in exchange for relinquishing its filibuster power. “I hope folks in DC are listening to these people that I heard at the store, that I see every day,” the governor said a bit later of a recent trip he made to a Dick’s sporting goods store recently and constituents coming up to him about Democrats’ tepid responses to Trump, Elon Musk and what seems to be the gutting of the government.

With that Trump 2.0 gutting, the chaos of attacking Canada and Mexico with crushing tariffs and being hit back with counter tariffs, mass civil service firings and resident aliens being