Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said about the three Democratic-socialist candidates backed by Zohran Mamdani who won Congressional primaries in New York that it’s time to step up and deliver “results,” during an interview Thursday with CNN. <\/p>\n
DANA BASH: Democratic voters in New York chose three candidates backed by Zohran Mamdani – far-left and Democratic socialist candidates. What message do you take from that about where your party is? GOV. JOSH SHAPIRO: Well, those were races in individual districts in a whole other state. I think you’re seeing very different-looking congressional races and certainly different Democratic candidates here in Pennsylvania. I think what is important is that the people who are making a lot of noise, who are engaging in these performative politics, have to now figure out how to deliver results. It’s one thing to speak in platitudes during a campaign. It’s a whole other thing to actually deliver for people who are genuinely hurting – who genuinely need to see the cost of living go down, meaning their ability to make ends meet go up – fixing a broken health care system, reining in excesses, being able to give people the promise of liberty that we’ve talked about. I think we, as a party, need to find our way toward candidates who actually can deliver for people and make their lives better. … I think what our party has to go through – that will be very healthy, and something we’ve not really done since the 1992 election cycle – is to have a battle over what we believe in, to have a battle over the ideas that we are going to hold on to and campaign on, and then deliver on as a way to make people’s lives better.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n