The following is the full transcript of the interview with Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, a portion of which aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Nov. 1, 2026.
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So, Governor, you're campaigning for re-election, and you're also trying to help some of these Democrats get elected to Congress.
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According to our CBS polling, 57% of likely voters believe Democrats have not offered a clear plan for what they would do if they do win control of Congress.
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What is it that Democrats are running for, or is it simply in opposition to President Trump?
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I'm running as a GSD Democrat—a Get Stuff Done Democrat.
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I think what people have seen in my leadership here in Pennsylvania is someone who listens, who goes back to the Capitol, and then delivers, executes for the people of Pennsylvania, and I'm working hard to elect these members of or these challengers to the members of Congress here in Pennsylvania who run on a similar platform, common sense things, making sure people have access to health care, making sure that there is actually accountability in Washington D.C. so that the corruption doesn't take money out of people's pockets here and enrich the folks in D.C.
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Those are just two examples of the kinds of things I see from our challengers here in Congress.
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And as I crisscross this Commonwealth, what they're seeing from me is a Democrat who understands how to win, but more importantly, understands how to deliver for them.
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And that's what these candidates are running on.
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How optimistic are you that you're going to be able to take four seats I think you've said?
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I mean, look.
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Right now, it seems like there might even be five competitive congressional districts here in Pennsylvania.
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Obviously, four have received the most attention.
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I think we're seemingly ahead in at least three of them.
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But look, I never pay much attention to these polls.
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I think it's all a jump ball, and the most important thing is to do what we're doing on this bus: show up everywhere, talk to people, let them know what's at stake, how important it is to not just re-elect their governor, but that we can finally have a check on Donald Trump's chaos, cruelty, and corruption in Washington D.C.
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If they get out and vote for their candidate for Congress.
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And they're still going to have to work with a Republican president for those next two years when they get there.
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If they get there.
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But there'll be a check on his corruption, and hopefully have real leverage to roll back the Medicaid cuts, to roll back the SNAP cuts, to make sure that there's real responsibility and accountability in Washington D.C. Something we have not had when Republicans have had a trifecta there.
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Let me ask you about what's going to happen here in this state in terms of administering the election.
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Homeland Security claimed earlier this year that as many as 14,576 non-citizens could be registered to vote here.
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Has the federal government provided enough information to you–
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MARGARET BRENNAN:
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So Homeland Security said that in this state there are as many as 14,576 non citizens that could be registered to vote in Pennsylvania.
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Did they provide information to back up that claim?
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And what did your own investigation find?
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As soon as we received that from the federal government, we immediately responded and said, "Look, if you have information of illegal voters who are on our rolls, we want that information because we don't want them casting a ballot here in Pennsylvania."
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Look, I'm the former chief law enforcement officer of this Commonwealth.
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I have prosecuted election fraud cases.
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I don't want anyone voting who's not a legal eligible voter–
MARGARET BRENNAN: Did they back that up?
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And of course, of course, when we responded to the Trump administration, they provided no backup.
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So it was a press release designed to get some attention for their false narrative.
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Listen, the first appointment I made when I was elected governor was the Secretary of State.
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That's the person that administers elections here in the state.
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I chose him, even though I'm a Democrat, because I think the administration of elections should be nonpartisan.
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Al Schmidt, in his career of running elections, has done more to root out corruption than anything that's ever been done in the Trump administration.
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We take that very, very seriously, and the Trump administration has never provided a shred of evidence to suggest that there are people on our rolls who are ineligible.
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If they have it, I want it, and we will act on it immediately.
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A recent CBS investigation found Pennsylvania was one of the states where Homeland Security has been going door to door.
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They've been knocking on doors and asking about the immigration status of people who live there.
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…and 150 more, not listed.
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