Garrity has increased email fundraising efforts and has publicly stated she is considering a run. One of those fundraising emails from Garrity’s team came with a subject line: “Am I Running for Governor”.

“Am I running? I’m thinking about it,” Garrity said Friday on This Week in Pennsylvania. “Because we could be so much better in the Commonwealth.” She affirmed that a decision whether to run will come this summer, setting up about 8-10 months for a primary campaign in a midterm election year.

When asked about what her top issues in a campaign may be, Garrity said the state could soon be out of money due to rising spending and noted that Pennsylvania should be a leader in energy production.

She also said the state needs a “battle-tested leader,” pointing toward her time in the military.

Garrity was also asked about the arson attack on the Governor’s Residence earlier this month while Governor Josh Shapiro and his family were sleeping. Garrity said she is “grateful that the Governor and his family were not harmed” and that “an attack on the Governor is an attack on all of us.”

Garrity also rejected the idea that another potential governor candidate, Congressman Dan Meuser, suggested that Shapiro held some responsibility for the attack due to his ongoing lawsuits against President Donald Trump.

“I thought they were unnecessary,” said Garrity of the comments suggesting Shapiro held blame for the attack.

Garrity noted she and Meuser have a “great relationship” and have talked about their potential runs. Meuser is Garrity’s Congressman in Bradford County, and Garrity said she thinks Meuser does a “really great job representing us in Washington.”

Garrity herself will be in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the Philadelphia Eagles’ Super Bowl win at the White House. She said she would not ask President Donald Trump for an endorsement at the event.

State Senator Doug Mastriano, the 2022 Republican gubernatorial nominee who received Trump’s endorsement, has said he is considering another run for Governor and that he would be interested in ‘teaming up’ with Garrity as a Lt. Governor candidate.

Candidates for Governor and Lt. Governor in Pennsylvania do not run on a ticket like the President and Vice President, however, candidates may state who they prefer to run with. Garrity says she has not spoken to Mastriano about a joint run, but says she has a “great relationship” with Mastriano, saying they attend veterans events together.

Garrity described the path for a Republican to beat Shapiro as pointing out how Pennsylvania is, in her view, going in the wrong direction, and the state does “not want to run out of money just in time for (Shapiro) to run for something else.”