Left: Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier speaks at a rally in New York City, June 18, 2026. Right: Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro addresses supporters in Warminster, Pa., May 19, 2026.(Eduardo Munoz, Hannah Beier/Reuters)

Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro sounds like he’s itching for a fight with his party's insurgent socialist wing, whose uncomfortable marriage of convenience with the Democratic Party is, by the insurgents’ own admission, a temporary compromise.

“I think what our party has to go through that will be very healthy, and something we’ve not really done since the 1992 election cycle, is to have a battle over what we believe in,” Shapiro told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday. But the governor has a dog in this fight.

He singled out just one of the Democratic Socialist firebrands taking his party by storm, the ...

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