Your statewide candidate guide to the election in Pa., including president, Senate, attorney general, auditor general, and treasurer

Harris aims to lower taxes for the middle class, raise taxes on millionaires and corporations, and ban corporate price gouging. She pledges not to raise taxes on households making less than $400,000 a year, which is about 98% of the population, according to the New York Times. She also supports eliminating taxes on tips and proposed a $25,000 tax credit for first-time homebuyer down payments and a $50,000 tax deduction for small-business start-ups.

Harris wants to revive the bipartisan border security bill, which fizzled after Donald Trump encouraged Republicans to oppose it. She said she wants to have strong border security as well as “an earned pathway to citizenship.” She has pledged to support Ukraine and NATO allies.

Harris supports restoring abortion rights nationally, and said she would support ending the Senate filibuster to achieve this. She supported Medicare for All as a candidate in the 2020 primary, but now says she instead wants to expand the Affordable Care Act.

Harris supports the Equality Act, which would provide antidiscrimination protections for LGBTQIA+ Americans.

Harris has changed her views on energy over the years. In 2019, she said she supported banning fracking, but she now opposes a ban and has said she supports investing in diverse sources of energy.

Trump became the first former U.S. president convicted of felony crimes this year after he was found guilty of 34 felony charges in a hush money scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election. He’s also been found liable of inflating his wealth, defamation, and sexual abuse in civil cases. He was indicted for election interference in Georgia and federal court in relation to his attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

Strict immigration policies are a hallmark of Trump’s politics. He has vowed to carry out an unprecedented mass deportation, expand the border wall, and ban travel from certain countries. Trump touts an “America first” platform and said he wouldn’t protect a NATO ally if it hadn’t met defense spending guidelines.

Trump wants to lower taxes for corporations and raise tariffs on foreign goods. He wants to repeal clean energy tax credits; offer tax breaks to oil, gas, and coal producers; and ramp up drilling on public land. He has proposed eliminating Social Security benefit income taxes and ending taxes on tips.

Trump appointed three Supreme Court justices during his only term in office, which resulted in a conservative majority that overturned the national right to an abortion, which he has taken credit for. He has taken aim at transgender Americans with several policy proposals and said he would block federal funds for hospitals that provide gender affirming care.

Oliver believes “no government should regulate personal activities” like medical treatments, or “impose harsh penalties” like the death penalty. He spoke against “Cop City,” a controversial law enforcement training facility in the works in Atlanta, and he supports gun rights.

Stein breaks her platform into three categories: people, planet, and peace. She wants to guarantee free child care, ban fracking, and close most of the country’s military bases abroad.

Casey has framed his campaign as one for the working people. His “greedflation” report found that corporations have raised their prices while seeing record profits. He introduced the Price Gouging Prevention Act in February, which would give the Federal Trade Commission the power to punish corporate price gouging. He supports raising the corporate tax rate.

Casey is adamantly against a ban on fracking, voted to block a potential ban in 2021, and opposed Biden’s pause on pending approvals for liquefied natural gas exports. But he’s also been lauded as a climate champion by the League of Conservation Voters, supporting funding for a hydrogen hub and advocating for a tax credit for clean energy manufacturing jobs.

Casey has advocated against efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. He cosponsored the Rural Hospital Support Act, a bill aimed at extending Medicare rural hospital programs to prevent closures in rural areas.

Casey supported the PACT act, which supports veterans who were exposed to burn pits, and advocated for provisions in it to improve recruitment and retention of health-care workers at rural VA facilities. He has championed the ABLE program, which enables people with disabilities to utilize tax-free savings accounts without losing eligibility for federal programs like Medicaid and SSI.

Casey voted in favor of the Women’s Health Protection Act to restore the right to abortion that Roe v. Wade provided before it was overturned. He supported ending the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell program and cosponsored the 2022 law that enshrined the right to same-sex and interracial marriage.

McCormick believes that regulations of new oil and gas projects on federal lands should be removed and that new energy infrastructure construction should be a priority. McCormick is an outspoken advocate of fracking and wants to “unleash oil and gas production” in Pennsylvania. He said he supports all forms of energy, including nuclear and emerging technologies like carbon capture and storage.

McCormick pledges to “end China’s free ride” through six bans. McCormick has been criticized for investments in China made by the hedge fund Bridgewater when he was an executive at the firm.

McCormick believes that Trump-era immigration policies should be reinstated. He also opposed the unsuccessful bipartisan border deal.

He wants to “restore institutional integrity” and blamed lagging military recruitment on a cultural “rot” away from American exceptionalism that he says was caused by schools and the media. He wants to ban social media use for kids under the age of 16.

McCormick previously supported banning abortion except when a mother’s life is at risk, but now also supports exceptions for rape and incest. He believes abortion laws should be up to the states. He has also proposed an IVF tax credit and wants it to be easier for faith-based organizations to open child care facilities, like by relaxing worker education requirements.

Hazou pledges to defend human rights both in Pennsylvania and internationally. A permanent cease-fire in Gaza, protecting the environment, and “ensuring the wealthy pay their share in taxes” are among her priorities.

Selker is against abortion and believes the country’s leaders should be encouraging the country “to unite under inherently Christian western values.” He believes the Republican Party only makes “halfhearted references to conservatism,” according to a video on his campaign page.

Thomas believes in smaller government and says on his Substack that he wants to stand up for Pennsylvanians who are tired of inflation and the government spending money on wars abroad.

DePasquale says two of his biggest successes as the state’s top fiscal watchdog were investigating the number of untested rape kits and the state’s unresponsive child abuse hotline. He said he uncovered $2 billion in waste, fraud, and abuse in the role.

He said that as attorney general, he would defend workers from wage theft, stop price gouging, and go after predatory scammers, as well as deceptive medical policies, or other unethical practices.

He supports universal background checks for guns, banning the sale of “ghost guns” and red flag laws.

Sunday leads the York County DA’s office, which investigates 9,000 criminal cases annually in the state’s eighth-largest county. He touts a reduction in homicides in the county last year, as well as a reduction in crime and prison population during his first term.

As a career litigator, Sunday boasts trying about 50 felony jury trials to verdict and prosecuting high-profile York County murders.

He cofounded the York County Heroin Task Force, which is now the York County Opioid Collaborative. He also expanded the District Attorney’s Drug Task Force to address heroin and fentanyl trade in York County.

Cowburn wants to protect Pennsylvanians from what he sees as “unwarranted” state and federal overreach.

Magill said in the survey that the point of government “is to secure our God-given Individual Rights.” Magill is the vice chair of the Constitution Party in Pennsylvania.

Settle touts leading an effort to pass Act 62, which requires insurance companies to cover services for children with autism. He was a founding member for the Republicans for Josh Shapiro Committee and served on Shapiro’s transition team for health and human services after his election as governor.

Weiss does not appear to have a campaign website but says on X that he supports Medicare for All, a cease-fire in Gaza, and the progressive policies of the state’s Green Party.

DeFoor previously worked as the elected controller in Dauphin County, which includes Harrisburg, spending three decades conducting governmental audits and fraud investigations for the state inspector general, the state attorney general, and a large hospital system.

In 2022, DeFoor’s administration terminated 40 employees who handled school audits in his office. He transferred the responsibility back to the state Department of Education.

In conjunction with the General Assembly, DeFoor’s office has advocated for financial literacy in K-12 schools through the “Be Money Smart” financial literacy initiative.

Kenyatta said he would bring back a school audit bureau and wants to bring oversight to cyber charter schools. He also wants to create a Bureau of Labor and Worker Protections that would focus on employee misclassification, union busting, wage theft, and pension funds.

Kenyatta is calling for transparency on how large hospital nonprofits and long-term care providers use state dollars.

Like some past auditors general, Kenyatta does not have an auditing background, but believes his upbringing in North Philadelphia helped him understand how government works for people who depend on it. Kenyatta said he has experience interrogating how money is spent through sitting on two House committees that oversee state agencies.

He does not appear to have a campaign website. The party believes the government should be “informed by the Christian tradition” and acknowledge “the primacy of religion in each person’s life.”

When asked what his top three policy priorities are in a Committee of Seventy survey, he responded “demonstrating character, competence, and commitment, and expecting the same from those around me.”

Smith wants to audit the governor’s office and the offices of the leaders of the state legislature because he believes the major parties cannot be trusted to do so.

As treasurer, Garrity has focused on cutting waste and reducing fees, including efforts that cut costs for those contributing to 529 savings accounts and for the PA ABLE program for people with disabilities.

Garrity’s office introduced an upgrade to the state’s unclaimed property system, which fast-tracks simple claims returns. Her office has also helped return military decorations in the treasury’s vault to their rightful owners or their families.

McClelland has worked at the intersection of process improvement, addiction, and government, including being trained under former Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill and serving as a consultant for a White House initiative. She also created the first orthomolecular recovery program for addiction in Pennsylvania, which raised nearly $2 million in venture capital funding.

She pledged not to invest the state’s worker pensions in foreign holdings, such as those the state currently holds in Israel. Some residents have called for the state to disinvest in those accounts amid the Israel-Hamas war.

Bowman does not appear to have a campaign website. He is listed on the state’s Constitution Party’s website as its treasurer.

Ciesielski decided to get involved in politics after becoming “disgusted” with the party’s “failure” to intervene with “government overreach” during the pandemic, according to his campaign website. He believes Bitcoin can solve many political issues.

Foster’s platform focuses on “fiscal responsibility,” from enhancing financial literacy for constituents to fostering trust in government’s fiscal management.