First RoundPartyCandidate%RepublicanKen Paxton (incumbent)42.7%RepublicanGeorge P. Bush22.8%RepublicanEva Guzman17.5%RepublicanLouie Gohmert17.0%1 more row
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Benjamin Aaron Shapiro (born January 15, 1984) is an American conservative political commentator and media host.
Tom Wolf (Democratic Party)Pennsylvania / GovernorThomas Westerman Wolf is an American politician and businessman serving as the 47th and current governor of Pennsylvania since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he defeated Republican incumbent Tom Corbett in the 2014 gubernatorial election and was reelected in 2018 by a margin of 17.1%. Wikipedia
The 2022 Pennsylvania gubernatorial election will take place on November 8, 2022, to elect the governor of Pennsylvania and lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. Incumbent Democratic Governor Tom Wolf is term-limited and cannot seek re-election to a third consecutive term.
Keli M. Neary is the Executive Deputy Attorney General in charge of the Civil Law Division, overseeing the work of approximately 120 attorneys and support staff.
He or she serves as the chief law enforcement officer of Pennsylvania and represents the state and its agencies in any action brought by or against them. The attorney general is responsible for collecting all debts, taxes, and accounts due to the state.
James Madison University1998Salem High SchoolWilliam & MaryJason Miyares/Education
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Term limits. The attorney general is directly elected in 43 states and Washington, D.C. The attorney general is appointed by the state Legislature in Maine, by the state Supreme Court in Tennessee, and by the governor in the remaining five states.
The attorney general is an executive office in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., that serves as the chief legal advisor and chief law enforcement officer for the state government and is empowered to prosecute violations of state law, represent the state in legal disputes and issue legal advice to state agencies and the legislature. In most states, the attorney general has a substantial influence on a state's approach to law enforcement. Attorneys general often set particular law enforcement priorities (e.g. drug law, civil rights violations or sexual crime) and focus extra resources on these issues. This puts them, in the words of the National Association of Attorneys General, at the "intersection of law and public policy."
Hudson Valley Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney, who lost to Cuomo in the Democratic primary for the attorney general's office 12 years ago, is another formidable candidate. He's sitting on $4 million in contributions, most of it raised for his congressional reelection campaign.
But, he abruptly resigned in May after multiple women accused him of physical assault. Since then, a swell of candidates have emerged for the position.
Andrew Cuomo, who served one term as attorney general before he was elected governor, strengthened his political career with some significant prosecutions out of the office, including a pay-to-play scheme involving millions of dollars of the state's public pension funds.
Then there's Leecia Eve, who boasts a varied resume that includes work as a litigator, as a staffer to Senators Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton, and an economic development post in the Cuomo administration. "This is not something that you talk about in a classroom.