The polling for the 2022 Midterm Elections in the United States is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, November 8. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives, along with one-third seats of the US Senate will be up for elections. In addition, 36 US States will elect their governors while many states will also elect officers to their state legislatures as well as at the municipal level for the local officials.

Joshua Shapiro is a member of the Democratic Party and a nominee in the 2022 Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election. He will face Republican Doug Mastriano in the general election.

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Who is Josh Shapiro?

Joshua David Shapiro was born on June 20, 1973, in Kansas City, Missouri, and was raised in Dresher, a town in Pennsylvania. He attended Akiba Hebrew Academy and later completed his major in political science at the University of Rochester, where he became the first freshman to win the election for student body president in 1992.

After graduating, he moved to Washington D.C. and worked as a legislative assistant to US Senator Carl Levin. In 2004, he won the election for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as well as the three re-elections in 2006, 2008, and 2010.

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Governor Tom Wolf named Shapiro the Chair of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency in April 2015.

In 2016, Shapiro won the election as Pennsylvania attorney general and was re-elected in 2020. As Attorney General, Shapiro has charged a few members of his own party with corruption.

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In October 2021, Shapiro announced his candidacy for the 2022 Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Election and will face Republican Doug Mastriano in the election. Before his announcement, Governor Tom Wolf endorsed Shapiro’s bid.

A self-described progressive democrat, Shapiro is running for protecting abortion rights, voting rights, and raising the minimum wage.  

Shapiro married Lori Shapiro in 1997. They have four children – Sophia, Jonah, Reuben, and Max. They live in Abington, Pennsylvania.