GOP Rep. Scott Perry to be challenged by Democrat he defeated in 2024
Stelson lost to Perry by just more than 1 percent in 2024. The highly competitive 10th District has been rated as a toss-up by the nonpartisan elections analyst Cook Political Report.
FBI agents seized Perry's cellphone in 2022 in connection with investigations into President Trump. A court later issued a ruling shielding much of Perry's communications with other lawmakers from special counsel Jack Smith.
Controversies hanging over the 2020 presidential election and the investigation hung over the 2024 race, when Perry won reelection and Trump won Pennsylvania after losing the state in 2020 to former President Biden.
A poll conducted earlier this month by the left-leaning Data For Progress on behalf of the Democratic-aligned House Majority PAC shows Stelson leading Perry 46 percent to 43 percent.
In a statement announcing her campaign, Stelson blasted Perry for voting for Trump's legislative agenda.
'Scott Perry has spent more than a decade in DC taking votes that hurt us instead of delivering results – and he just sold us out again by casting the deciding vote for the largest Medicaid cuts in history, all to fund more tax cuts for billionaires,' Stelson said in a statement.
'People around here are sick and tired of career politicians like Scott Perry betraying them at every turn. I'm running to give Central Pennsylvanians the voice they deserve and to fight to lower costs, protect Social Security and Medicare, ensure a woman's right to choose and secure the border,' she continued.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) responded to Stelson's entrance with a statement Monday.
'Welcome back to certified loser Janelle Stelson! If there's one thing we know for sure, it's that Janelle Stelson, who won't even bother to live in the district she wants to represent, doesn't stand a chance against Scott Perry. Pennsylvanians have rejected her before, and they'll gladly do so again in 2026,' NRCC spokesperson Maureen O'Toole said.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, meanwhile, issued a stament delcaring Perry has 'never been more vulnerable.'
'Nobody likes Scott Perry: He's spent more than a decade in Washington sowing division and selling out his Central Pennsylvania constituents at every turn,' DCCC spokesperson Eli Cousin said. 'After calling Medicaid a 'money laundering' scheme, Perry voted to make the largest cuts to the program in history and add trillions to our national debt all so that he could fund more tax cuts for billionaires – and his only concern was that he wished the Medicaid cuts were even steeper.'
Perry won his House seat in 2012 and has secured reelection in each of the six elections since.
Stellson is expected to have the support of the Democratic establishment going into the general election.
According to her campaign, Stelson has already secured endorsements from Lt. Gov. Austin Davis (D), state Sen. Patty Kim (D) and state Reps. Carol Hill-Evans (D), Dave Madsen (D) and Nate Davidson (D).
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