5 former Home Republicans penned a letter on Monday urging voters within the battleground state of Pennsylvania to not re-elect Republican Rep. Scott Perry.
Former Republican Reps. Barbara Comstock, of Virginia, Adam Kinzinger, of Illinois, Denver Riggleman, of Virginia, Dave Trott, of Michigan, and Joe Walsh, of Illinois, advised fellow Republicans that “they know how difficult it is to vote for a member of the other political party,” however to hitch them in supporting Perry’s Democratic challenger, Janelle Stelson. Amongst different issues, the 5 principally condemned Perry’s “brazen self-interest” and “involvement in the plot to overturn the results of the 2020 election.”
Pennsylvania’s tenth district has been represented by Perry, the previous chair and present member of the Home Freedom Caucus, since 2013. Perry is the one sitting member of Congress whose cellphone was seized by the FBI in its investigation into efforts to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election, and that has additionally grow to be a theme in tv advertisements. The race between him and Stelson just lately moved from leaning Republican to a toss up, in keeping with the Fox Information Energy Rankings.
“After playing a direct role in the effort to nullify the will of Pennsylvania’s voters, Perry had his cell phone seized by the FBI and has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on legal defense fees,” the letter says. “Former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchinson testified under oath that Perry requested a presidential pardon for his actions in the leadup to the deadly January 6th insurrection.”
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., speaks in the course of the Conservative Political Motion Convention, CPAC 2024, on the Nationwide Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photograph/Jose Luis Magana, File)
The 5 former Home Republicans go on to say Perry’s “lack of remorse for his actions is a slap in the face to every public servant who has made the United States the greatest country in the world. Our nation deserves better than someone who was so easily willing to break his sworn oath to the Constitution for political expediency.”
“At this moment of great consequence in American history, we need leaders who will tell the truth and be willing to work in a bipartisan fashion no matter what party to deliver for Americans,” they wrote, in keeping with the letter obtained by Mediaite. “Janelle Stelson is the candidate in this race who will do just that. Janelle was a Republican for most of her life and she is running on a mainstream platform of cutting taxes for the middle class, securing the border, lowering the cost of living, adhering to the Constitution, and supporting democracy and fair elections.”
Perry’s district has favored Republicans because it was redrawn in 2018, and Trump received it by 4 proportion factors in 2020, in keeping with The Related Press.
Janelle Stelson, Democratic candidate for Pennsylvania’s tenth Congressional District, talks with patrons on the Broad Avenue Market in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. Stelson is difficult Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., for the seat. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Photos)
Now, as Perry runs for a seventh time period, he faces a vigorous problem.
Stelson, a former TV information anchor and former Republican, has raised over $1 million greater than Perry, forcing prime Home Republicans to return to his support as they attempt to maintain their slim majority. Democrats have outspent Republicans within the race to date, in keeping with AdImpact, which tracks marketing campaign advert spending. They’ve spent greater than $7 million as of final week, in comparison with greater than $4 million spent by Republicans.
Rep. Scott Perry, middle, speaks throughout a information convention on FISA reauthorization on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024. (Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg through Getty Photos)
In shifting the competition between Perry and Stelson extra towards the Democrat earlier this month, the nonpartisan Cook dinner Political Report surmised that whereas the “political environment should still favor Perry, his unique vulnerabilities, coupled with Democrats’ spending advantage, moves this race from Lean Republican to Toss Up.”
The letter from the previous GOP lawmakers claims Stelson “will work with Republicans and Democrats to search out frequent floor,” whereas Perry “is consistently rated as one of the least bipartisan members of Congress” and “is routinely the only member of the Pennsylvania delegation – Republican or Democrat – to oppose common sense measures that would improve the lives of his constituents, including legislation to protect firefighters and crack down on human trafficking.” They declare Perry “also turned his back on our brave veterans by being the only Republican or Democrat in the Pennsylvania delegation to vote against legislation to house homeless veterans. He also opposed the bipartisan PACT Act, the largest expansion of VA benefits in history, which provided healthcare and compensation to servicemembers who suffered from toxic burn pit exposure.”
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“These are the men and women who risked – and in many cases, gave – their lives to defend our freedom,” the 5 former Home Republicans stated.
Fox Information’ Remy Numa and The Related Press contributed to this report.
