Josh Shapiro called Donald Trump an existential threat. Now, he says he's ready to work with him.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : As Trump begins a second term, the Pennsylvania governor has a new, more amiable game plan: Work together -- as long as it doesn't compromise residents' "fundamental freedoms.
62% : "In some ways, Shapiro's rise to power has been in tandem with Trump's.
58% : Shapiro quickly responded, accusing Trump of promoting "antisemitic tropes" and saying that Trump is "obsessed with me."
57% : But this year, as Trump takes the Oval Office again and Shapiro eyes the 2028 Democratic presidential ticket, the Pennsylvania governor has a new, more amiable game plan: Work together -- as long as it doesn't compromise residents' "fundamental freedoms.
57% : The former Montgomery County commissioner first garnered national attention in 2016, when he won Pennsylvania in the same election cycle as Trump.
50% : "Don't call the woman in Michigan," Trump said in a media call in late March 2020, as the pandemic continued to spread throughout the country, news site Michigan Advance reported at the time.
49% : Trump has promised to hollow out many of the nation's federal agencies, such as the Department of Education, in his second term.
49% : The role of the AG gave Shapiro a unique vantage -- the position has become more nationalized in recent years, with attorneys general across the country serving as the main challengers to federal policies during the Trump and Biden administrations.
46% : Elected to two terms as attorney general, Shapiro often joined other Democratic attorneys general in suing the Trump administration over federal policies on issues like reproductive access and the environment.
44% : The two 2028 hopefuls lead states that voted for Trump and this year will have to navigate a divided legislature, where one party controls the state Senate and another the state House.
40% : "As Attorney General, Josh Shapiro worked to protect Pennsylvanians from actions that threatened everything from workers' rights and their ability to keep their wages, to our clean air and pure water, to our voting rights and a woman's freedom to choose," Bonder, Shapiro's spokesperson, said in the statement.
34% : After Shapiro gave a prime-time speech at the Democratic National Convention, Trump attacked the governor on his social media platform, calling him a "highly overrated Jewish Governor."
25% : Second, he needs to strike a balance on his rhetoric about Trump to get reelected in 2026 in Pennsylvania, where Trump won by more than 120,000 votes.
24% : It was a much different tone than the one he used on the campaign trail just days earlier, as he blasted Trump in support of Vice President Kamala Harris.
24% : In 2020, Trump bragged that he told then-Vice President Mike Pence not to take Whitmer's calls requesting federal assistance to handle the state's COVID-19 outbreak, including requests for ventilators and masks.
23% : And it's different from his previous approach, as attorney general, in which he touted his numerous legal challenges of the Trump administration, boasting about beating Trump in court more than 40 times over his 2020 efforts to overturn the state's election results.
14% : "On the 2024 presidential campaign trail, Gov. Josh Shapiro frequently called Donald Trump an existential threat to American democracy.
12% : "He's not going to play nice with Trump, but he's not going to make Trump the boogeyman at all," Dagnes said.

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