Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro says Democrats' midterm election wins give a blueprint for the future

Governor Josh Shapiro said that victories for the Democratic party in Pennsylvania in the midterm elections can provide a blueprint for how the party can win elsewhere.

Shortly after the polls closed on Election Day, CBS News projected that Shapiro defeated challenger Stacy Garrity and that he would be reelected to serve a second term as governor of Pennsylvania. 

Unofficial results for Pennsylvania's governor's race show that Shapiro, the incumbent, received 60.12% of the vote, while Garrity, the state's treasurer, received 38.59% of the vote.

"I think what we showed last night is we are a big tent party," Shapiro said in an interview with CBS Mornings. "What we also showed last night, here in the toughest swing state in the entire country, that we elected candidates who could compete everywhere, who attracted the support of Republicans and independents along with Democrats."

Shapiro, who was first elected as governor in 2022, took credit for recruiting the four Democratic candidates who ousted House GOP incumbents in his state, calling them "get-stuff-done Democrats."

"What they all had in common was a desire for fundamental change," Shapiro said. "What they all had in common was that these were common sense Democrats who ran hard. I campaigned for each one of them, worked hard for each of them and we knew that these four had the ability, if they won, to tilt the balance of power in Washington and make Hakeem Jeffries the speaker."

Shapiro is expected to hold a press conference at the governor's residence in Harrisburg on Wednesday afternoon.