{"id":27948,"date":"2026-11-04T06:04:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/garrity-wishes-shapiro-well-in-concession-speech-hints-hes-more-interested-in-white-house-than-pennsylvania-wvia-public-media\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T06:04:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T06:04:40","slug":"garrity-wishes-shapiro-well-in-concession-speech-hints-hes-more-interested-in-white-house-than-pennsylvania-wvia-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/garrity-wishes-shapiro-well-in-concession-speech-hints-hes-more-interested-in-white-house-than-pennsylvania-wvia-public-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrity wishes Shapiro well in concession speech, hints he's more interested in White House than Pennsylvania – WVIA Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican gubernatorial candidate Stacey Garrity took the stage at Stone Hedge Golf Course in Wyoming County a little before 9 p.m. to congratulate Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro on his \u201chard-fought victory.\u201d
Shapiro easily beat Garrity<\/a>, with the Associated Press calling the race for Shapiro at 8:01 p.m., just one minute after the polls closed.
The result was predicted leading up to the race, with early polling heavily favoring Shapiro while Garrity faced issues of name recognition, lackluster funding, and low GOP support.
\u201cTonight, I wish the governor and his team my sincere best, as we all should, you guys, because his success is our success,\u201d Garrity said.
Garrity added that she is proud of the campaign she and her team ran and hopes it\u2019s a \u201creminder to him that Pennsylvania doesn’t just deserve but needs a full-time chief executive.\u201d
After the speech, Garrity further explained the comment, saying, \u201cWe all know the governor is more interested in Pennsylvania Avenue than sometimes focusing on Pennsylvania families.\u201d
It was a reference to Shapiro’s much discussed \u2014 but unconfirmed \u2014 White House aspirations.
Garrity, a retired U.S. Army Reserve Colonel and the state\u2019s Treasurer since 2021, was named the GOP candidate early in the race. That set the stage for Tuesday night’s election against Shapiro, Pennsylvania\u2019s 48th governor since 2023. Before that, he served as the state\u2019s Attorney General.
But despite support from some Republican donors, Shapiro\u2019s backers outpaced Garrity\u2019s campaign.
Despite the results, Garrity stressed that she was proud of the campaign. Her supporters in the crowd shared the sentiment.
She spent much of her approximately nine-minute speech thanking her family, voters, staff, volunteers, and the about 100 people who gathered at the election night party in Tunkhannock.
\u201cMeeting so many of you, working alongside you, and hearing your stories only validated our faith in what Pennsylvania can and should be,\u201d Garritty said.
\u201cIt was an uphill battle, and it\u2019s a shame, but she made a good campaign,\u201d said Tony Spack, a 57-year-old Carlisle resident.
Dakota Haffner and Andrew Spernkle, both 18-year-old residents from York County who drove to the event after working the polls, said that they thought Garrity did a good job no matter the results.
\u201cThe money came from the people,\u201d Spernkle said.
Garrity later told the media that she \u201cnever relied on anyone else\u201d in her life after being asked about GOP support, admitting that, of course, she wished more resources had come, but \u201cany campaign is going to with that.\u201d
The results were \u201cnot necessarily\u201d a surprise, Garrity said, recognizing Shapiro\u2019s name recognition as a hurdle she faced.
Garrity closed her speech to her supporters by stating that the state could be a leader in the nation again.
\u201cTonight\u2019s results don\u2019t change that,\u201d Garrity said. \u201cThey make our responsibilities to hold our leaders to those standards more important.\u201d
WVIA News wants to hear from you! If you have a story idea for one of our journalists, it’s as simple as sending an e-mail. Reach out anytime at wvianews@wvia.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Republican gubernatorial candidate Stacey Garrity took the stage at Stone Hedge Golf Course in Wyoming County a little before 9 p.m. to congratulate Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro on his \u201chard-fought victory.\u201dShapiro easily beat Garrity, with the Associated Press calling the race for Shapiro at 8:01 p.m., just one minute after the polls closed. The result […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}