This week’s biggest Winners & Losers
Winners: Janelle Stelson – Democratic congressional candidate Janelle Stelson, who is once again seeking to challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry in the 10th Congressional District, appears to be starting the 2026 campaign cycle on a strong footing. A new poll from Public Policy Polling shows the former TV anchor leading Perry 48% to 44% […]
Democrats’ Chances of Defeating Scott Perry in Battleground House Race—Poll
A new poll of a battleground congressional district in Pennsylvania showed Democratic candidate Janelle Stelson hold a narrow lead over incumbent Republican Representative Scott Perry.
The poll, conducted by Public Policy Polling for a group titled Republicans Against Perry, showed Stelson leading Perry by 4 percentage points (48 percent to 44 percent), reported PennLive. It surveyed 549 registered voters in the district and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points.
Rep. Perry underwater with voters on job approval, trails Democrat: poll
A majority of voters in a 10th Congressional District poll disapprove of Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry’s job performance, while expected Democratic challenger Janelle Stelson has an early 4-point lead ahead of the 2026 election.
The survey commissioned by Republicans Against Perry and conducted by Public Policy Polling questioned 549 registered voters in the 10th District, which encompasses Dauphin County and parts of York and Cumberland counties.
Rep. Perry has gone a step too far in defaming millions of veterans who just happen to be Democrats | PennLive Editorial
Veterans throughout the nation are condemning Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) for insulting their sacrifice and service to this country. Many are demanding an apology. They have reason to do so. Speaking on the Chris Stigall podcast that was beamed throughout the world, Perry actually accused his fellow veterans who are Democrats of “hating the military.” […]
Nearly all Pa. GOP US House members outraised Democrats in Q3 — Scott Perry’s the exception
For the first time in the 2026 cycle, a Democratic challenger in Pennsylvania has outraised an incumbent in what is shaping up to be one of the most closely watched U.S. House races in the country.
Democrat Janelle Stelson, a former television anchor in central Pennsylvania, raised $1.24 million from the beginning of July to the end of September, nearly doubling the haul of GOP U.S. Rep. Scott Perry (R-10th District) over the past three months. She raised more than any other 2026 U.S. House candidate in Pennsylvania during the third quarter and is the only one to raise over $1 million in the latest finance report.
Scott Perry Says Democrats ‘Hate the Military,’ Echoing Trump’s Attacks
Representative Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, the former chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, accused Democrats in a recent interview of hating the military and serving for purely political reasons.
“They hate the military,” Mr. Perry said of Democrats during an interview last week on the Chris Stigall Show, a nationally syndicated conservative radio program. “That’s only a credential that they get when they want to run for office. They join the military, they serve a little bit, they get the credential and then they run for office and wear the uniform and say, ‘Look at me — I support America.’ But let’s face it, all their votes say they don’t support America.”
Stelson visits Black businesses in Harrisburg, pins cost increases on Trump and Perry
Janelle Stelson made an early campaign stop in Harrisburg on Wednesday, pointing to one of the Democrats’ likely focus points for 2026 — that a Trump-induced economic slowdown could help motivate Black voters that the party has historically struggled to reach, at least in central Pennsylvania. Stelson — who has already been endorsed by Democratic […]
Republicans who came to Congress to fight the deficit face attacks for raising it under Trump
WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Scott Perry, a past chairman of the hard-right House Freedom Caucus, has spent his 12-year career in Congress railing about the ballooning national debt and deficits — what he’s bemoaned as the “bankrupting of America.”
But after voting for President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill,” which is estimated to hike deficits by more than $4 trillion over the next decade, Perry finds himself playing defense on the issue of the skyrocketi
The one state that could determine House control next year
Four Republican seats — enough to flip control of the lower chamber — are competitive this year. And Democrats are planning to hit them with all they’ve got. The four districts are represented by Scott Perry,a particularly vulnerable Congress member in a district that includes Harrisburg, the capital; Ryan Mackenzie,a freshman lawmaker in a district across the […]
Pennsylvania’s Congressional Vulnerability Rankings (July 2025)
Election Day 2026 is still well over a year away, but it’s never too soon to start assembling our PoliticsPA congressional vulnerability rankings for the Pennsylvania delegation in the U.S. House. For the ninth election cycle dating back to 2010, PoliticsPA is publishing congressional vulnerability rankings for Pennsylvania’s delegation. This is our first handicapping of the 2024 […]
