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Josh Shapiro: “Part of speaking and acting with moral clarity is calling it…”

Featuring: Josh Shapiro, Democratic | Governor of Pennsylvania

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Political violence traumatized their states. A GOP and a Dem governor join to plead: Tone it down

Published | Video Starts at 06:25

To be. To lower the temperature. But we also see some people on your side of the aisle who also ignore that and sort of play in that dangerous space. Part of speaking and acting with moral clarity is calling it out wherever we see it, whether it's on our side of the aisle or the other side of the aisle. Sometimes it's hardest when it's on your own side of the aisle. Listen, in Butler, Pennsylvania, where then the former president, now the president, was shot at, I called out Democrats who were saying, celebrating the attack on his life. (06:25–06:35)

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Asserts the importance of calling out moral failings regardless of political affiliation.

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