2022 Pennsylvania governor's race: Josh Shapiro vs. Doug Mastriano
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Democratic Attorney General Josh Shapiro and Republican candidate Doug Mastriano are running to be the next governor of Pennsylvania, to succeed outgoing Gov. Tom Wolf, who is term-limited.
Shapiro, 49, has run as a moderate Democrat. On the trail, he's touting his record as an attorney general who has taken on cases addressing sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, sued the Trump administration over health care and reached settlements over student loan abuse and the opioid crisis.
Mastriano, 58, a far-right candidate backed by President Donald Trump, is an election denier who chartered buses to Washington for Trump's Jan. 6, 2021, speech, in which he exhorted followers to march on the Capitol. He has served as a state senator since 2019, following a 30-year career in the Army. After tours in Iraq and Afghanistan he eventually retired at the rank of colonel. In 2018, Mastriano ran for Congress, placing fourth in the GOP primary.
