Pennsylvania’s treasurer, Stacy Garrity, is launching a republican offer for the governor

First on Fox: Pennsylvania’s state treasurer, Stacy Garrity, announced her republican campaign for the governor on Monday, which could be a competitive race against the outgoing Democratic Governor. Josh Shapiro in 2026.

Speak exclusively with Fox News Digital Before its campaign launchThe Republican candidate said that she put Shapiro to the Governor’s elections next year because he “failed the State”, on critical issues, including energy production, education and job creation. She said that the vast oil and gas resources in the state are the keys to its economy.

“I have a very different vision of the Commonwealth,” said Garrity, 61, in a telephone interview before announcing his campaign for the governor. “We really have to take advantage of what we just have under our feet, which would create a lot of financial breathing for the Commonwealth that we desperately need.”

Garrity said his position on energy staged her with President Donald Trump and Senator Dave McCormick, who both called to release American energy in the Pennsylvania battlefield during the 2024 presidential election.

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The Treasurer of the State Stacy Garrity speaks during a rally for Dave McCormick, republican candidate in the American Senate of Pennsylvania, at Beerded Goat Brewery in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Thursday April 25, 2024. (Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

“We have so much natural gas under our feet,” said Garrity, calling energy “billions of dollars in economic opportunities”.

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The Pennsylvania, a reliable swing state, experienced a red wave in 2024, while Trump won the top of the ticket and McCormick did not killed the former longtime senator Bob Casey, d-pa., On the Senate line.

Garrity said Pennsylvania voters delivered a message out loud last year.

The Pennsylvanians want “more money in our pockets” and less “hands of government in our pockets,” said the treasurer, who said she was going to the 67 Commonwealth counties every year.

Keystone state residents also want a school choice, safe communities and no “boys in competition against girls in sport,” said Garrity.

The republican hope has targeted Shapiro’s policies on the choice of school, arguing that “he could be able to play political games with education, but our children certainly cannot”.

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is seen at the Ceremony for Freedom Celebration during Wawa Welcome America on July 04, 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Gilbert Carrasquillo / GC Images)

Shapiro recently told journalists that Commonwealth did not need “extremist politicians” trying to legislate the participation of students in sports, in reference to a recent bill in the Pennsylvania legislature which would prevent transgender athletes from playing in female sports, According to Witf.

“He is with radical liberals who push a political program,” said Garrity, before adding: “As far as I’m concerned, it’s not equity, and it is not leadership. It is really, in my opinion, a betrayal of the common sense and integrity of the athletics of women.”

Garrity also criticized Shapiro for what she described as a topping on the choice of the school and “fail (ING) the state” in the delivery of a state budget.

Shapiro, who chairs a politically divided state legislature, missed the The Commonwealth deadline to pass Its budget this year.

The treasurer of the state of Pennsylvania, Stacy Garrity, speaks during a republican victory party. (Photo by Aimee Dilger / Sopa Images / Lightrocket via Getty Images)

The Democratic Governor drew national attention last year when he was pre-selected as a potential package for former vice-president Kamala Harris, after former president Joe Biden suspended his re-election campaign.

“I am not as well polite as Josh Shapiro, admitted Garrity to Fox News Digital. “I am certainly not as good politician as Josh Shapiro, and it is a prolific fundraising. It will be a difficult race.”

But despite Shapiro’s potential advantage as a national governor with national recognition, Garrity said: “I am a really difficult worker”.

Garrity boasted that during her first race for the state treasurer, she managed to upset a popular holder, and “then the second time, I got more Pennsylvania story candidateIncluding Josh Shapiro. “”

“I was an outsider all my life, in the army and in business and in politics, and that is why I was able to succeed when the chances are against me,” said Garrity.

The treasurer of the state of Pennsylvania, Stacy Garrity, poses alongside the president of the then, Donald Trump, during the presidential election of 2024. (Garrity countryside)

“The Treasurer of the State is my first role in the public service, but not my first in the public service,” said republican hope. “I spent 30 years in the army reserves. I was deployed three times in the Middle East.”

Garrity also served in the private sector, Global Tungsten & Powders, where she progressed to become one of the two vice-presidents.

Now, as a treasurer of the state, Garrity said: “Every day, I wake up and serve the workers’ Pennsylvanians is really a blessing.”

Garrity teases his governor race for months. The compatriot Trump-Rép. Dan Meuser, R-P-., Was also considered a potential republican candidate.

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His announcement last month that he would not show up for the Governor of Pennsylvania opened the way for Garrity’s announcement on Monday morning.

The primary of the Governor of Pennsylvania is set for May 19, 2026 and the mid-term elections are scheduled for November 3, 2026.