Democrat Josh Shapiro wins Pennsylvania governor's race

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published 9 November 2022

Democrat Josh Shapiro has won the Pennsylvania governor's race, Fox News, NBC News, and CNN are projecting, defeating his Republican opponent Doug Mastriano.

With 77 percent of the vote in, Shapiro, the state's attorney general, has 54.8 percent compared to Mastriano with 43.4 percent.

Shapiro campaigned on protecting reproductive rights and promising to expand early voting. "Opportunity won," he said Tuesday night. "A woman's right to choose won. The right to organize here in Pennsylvania, that won. Your right to vote won. In the face of all the lies and the conspiracies and baseless claims, you also ensured tonight that truth won right here in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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