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Getty Images A Democratic governor is accused of backstabbing a member of his own party to get revenge for a perceived personal slight. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro secretly helped a Republican state treasurer candidate defeat her Democratic challenger in 2024 because the fellow Dem had criticized his vice presidential ambitions, according to a leaked recording Axios revealed on Sunday. Ben Brooks, a Shapiro-backed congressional candidate and the president of Pennsylvania’s firefighters union, told students at Lehigh University on Wednesday that the governor had asked his union to back Republican Stacy Garrity in the state’s 2024 treasurer race, rather than the Democratic candidate, Erin McClelland. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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