Opportunity never knocks on the same door twice, but Josh Shapiro does. And it’s made all the difference in a career trajectory that has him on the precipice of his state’s governorship.

Shapiro, the Democrat and current state attorney general who just won his party’s gubernatorial nomination, is standing in the Conemaugh Health System’s Willow Street parking lot in downtown Johnstown after giving the speech he was supposed to deliver primary election night but was postponed because of a positive COVID test.