Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) took shots at Vice President JD Vance over his reaction to the Minneapolis shooting involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, saying Vance is “absolutely wrong” with his approach to it.
Vance defended the ICE officer while speaking at a White House press briefing on Thursday, saying he is unhappy the shooting victim, identified as 37-year-old Renee Good, was killed but is also unhappy she was “violating the law by interfering with the law enforcement action.” Shapiro described Vance’s interaction with the press, including the vice president’s criticism of the press’s coverage of the shooting, as “another example” of Vance having “absolutely no core.”
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“That guy is profoundly and pathetically a weak human being, and he does whatever he thinks his boss wants him to do, whatever he thinks will curry him favor that day with Donald Trump. And he’s also just absolutely wrong on how he’s approaching this situation of keeping people safe in Minnesota,” Shapiro said Friday in an interview with MeidasTouch.
Shapiro added that there should be a “thorough investigation” into the shooting rather than Vance’s “idiotic gaslighting.” The governor cited how he used to be Pennsylvania’s attorney general and he would seek to “calm tensions” in communities where law enforcement shootings occurred.
Shapiro also said the truth ought to be provided with “all of the evidence” to the Minneapolis community.
“The only way that you’re going to restore faith and trust in the community is by making sure the community has the truth of what really occurred, and JD Vance did his job on behalf of Donald Trump yesterday, which was to block the truth from coming out. To make a community less safe instead of trying to create more safety and security in that area,” Shapiro said.
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Shapiro was elected governor of Pennsylvania after winning the 2022 gubernatorial election by 15% and announced his reelection bid for this November on Thursday. The governor is also speculated to be a possible candidate for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination in 2028 after making former Vice President Kamala Harris’s short list for 2024 running mates.
Vance, too, is speculated to be a presidential candidate for his party’s primary in the 2028 election. While he hasn’t clarified if he has these ambitions, it didn’t stop Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk from giving her endorsement to him last month.