Pennsylvania Democrat Janelle Stelson, who narrowly lost a battleground race in the Harrisburg-based 10th District last year, announced Monday her long-awaited second challenge to Republican Rep. Scott Perry.
Perry won a seventh term last year by defeating Stelson, a former broadcast journalist, by just over a percentage point, his narrowest victory margin going back to his first election in 2012. Democrats hope that Stelson, running for a second time, can capitalize on a stronger political environment and opposition to Perry’s support for House Republicans’ reconciliation measure to oust the former House Freedom Caucus chair.
“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.”
