Eugene DePasquale, Pennsylvania’s former two-term auditor general, said Thursday that he will run for state attorney general, an office that played a critical role in rebuffing Republican attempts to overturn President Joe Biden’s win over Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
DePasquale is the first candidate to announce in the 2024 race for the state’s top law enforcement office and he is unlikely to be the only Democrat to seek the party’s nomination in the presidential battleground state.
DePasquale, 51, won two statewide elections for auditor general and served as Pennsylvania’s independently elected fiscal watchdog from 2013 through 2020.