宾夕法尼亚州州长乔希·夏皮罗(Josh Shapiro)因在堕胎权和移民等重大问题上挑战共和党而在政界受到关注。
现在他可能会把他的政治技巧带到白宫，有消息人士告诉ABC新闻，夏皮罗是领先者成为卡玛拉·哈里斯的竞选伙伴。
51岁的夏皮罗出生于密苏里州的堪萨斯城，在宾夕法尼亚州的德雷舍长大。他于1995年毕业于罗切斯特大学。
夏皮罗在国会山为几位民主党国会议员工作多年，包括参议员卡尔·莱文和罗伯特·托里切利。在此期间，夏皮罗于2002年获得了乔治敦大学的法律学位。
2004年，他赢得了宾夕法尼亚州众议院第153区的选举，并三次连任。2011年，夏皮罗被选入蒙哥马利郡委员会，并在委员会任职五年。
2016年，夏皮罗当选宾夕法尼亚州总检察长。他在2020年以超过340万张选票连任。
在他的任期内，夏皮罗接手了一些备受瞩目的案件，包括对天主教堂性虐待指控的调查，以及对制药公司阿片类药物危机的调查。
夏皮罗还回击了前总统唐纳德·特朗普的保守政策，包括拟议中的旅行禁令穆斯林占多数的国家的公民。2020年大选后，时任司法部长夏皮罗与几起质疑选举结果的诉讼进行了斗争。
两年前，夏皮罗竞选宾夕法尼亚州州长，以超过792，000张选票的优势击败共和党挑战者道格·马斯特里亚诺。
夏皮罗公开反对堕胎限制，并推动扩大生育权的政策。
“作为州长，我将永远维护我们州的宪法，保护女性对自己的身体做出决定的权利，以及获得她需要的医疗保健服务的权利，”他上周在宾夕法尼亚州堕胎案取得进展后发表声明说。
夏皮罗否认了州共和党人一再呼吁部署国民警卫队以应对该州移民的涌入。
“在这个世界上，我最不会做的事情就是让宾夕法尼亚州国民警卫队勇敢的男男女女的生命受到威胁，成为[德克萨斯州]州长[格雷格]阿博特制造的边境政治争吵的一部分，”夏皮罗在3月份说。
夏皮罗是犹太人，他也表示支持以色列与哈马斯的持续冲突，并呼吁在该国和该国上升的反犹太主义。
12月，他批评了时任宾夕法尼亚大学校长的利兹·马吉尔国会听证会校园里的反犹太主义。Magill没有直接回答共和党众议员Elise Stefanik的问题，即据报道反犹太主义言论，包括呼吁“种族灭绝犹太人”，是否构成骚扰。
“坦白地说，我认为她的评论绝对是可耻的。谴责种族灭绝应该不难，”夏皮罗在12月6日说。
马吉尔顺从的五天后。
Who is Gov. Josh Shapiro, a possible Harris VP pick?
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has been gaining attention in the political world for taking on Republicans on major issues such as abortion access and immigration.
And now he could be bringing his political skills to the White House with sources telling ABC News that Shapiro isa front-runnerto become Kamala Harris' running mate.
Shapiro, 51, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in Dresher, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Rochester in 1995.
Shapiro spent years on Capitol Hill working for several Democratic members of Congress, including Sens. Carl Levin and Robert Torricelli. During that time, Shapiro earned a law degree from Georgetown University in 2002.
In 2004, he won election for the 153rd district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and was reelected three times. In 2011, Shapiro was elected to the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners and remained on the board for five years.
In 2016, Shapiro was elected Pennsylvania's attorney general. He was reelected in 2020 with over 3.4 million votes.
During his tenure, Shapiro took on high-profile cases, including investigations into alleged sex abuse in the Catholic Church and probes of pharmaceutical companies over the opioid crisis.
Shapiro also pushed back against former President Donald Trump's conservative policies, including the proposedtravel banfrom citizens of Muslim-majority countries. Following the 2020 election, then-Attorney General Shapiro fought against several lawsuits that were filed contesting the results.
Two years ago, Shapiro ran for Pennsylvania governor and beat Republican challenger Doug Mastriano by more than 792,000 votes.
Shapiro has spoken out against abortion restrictions and pushed policies to expand reproductive rights.
"As governor, I will always uphold our state’s Constitution and protect a woman’s right to make decisions over her own body and have the health care services she needs," he said in a statement last week following a development in a Pennsylvania-based abortion case.
Shapiro has denied repeated calls from state Republicans to deploy the National Guard in response to the influx of migrants in the state.
"The last thing in the world I’m going to do is put the brave women and men of the Pennsylvania National Guard's lives at risk to be part of some political squabble at the border that [Texas] Gov. [Greg] Abbott has created," Shapiro said in March.
Shapiro, who is Jewish, has also expressed his support for Israel in its ongoing conflict against Hamas and called out rising antisemitism in the state and country.
In December, he criticized then-University of Pennsylvania's President Liz Magill followinga congressional hearingon antisemitism on campuses. Magill did not directly respond to Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik's questions about whether reportedly antisemitic rhetoric, including calls for "genocide of Jews," constituted harassment.
"Frankly, I thought her comments were absolutely shameful. It should not be hard to condemn genocide," Shapiro said on Dec. 6.
Magillresignedfive days later.
