Candidates have submitted their nomination petitions to seek office for a variety of federal and state positions, and one of the hottest races in central Pennsylvania will be for Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional seat.
Six Democratic candidates will be vying for the nomination for the seat currently held by Republican Scott Perry, who is seeking re-election and does not face a challenger. The district covers Dauphin County as well as parts of Cumberland and York counties.
Challengers in the crowded race have spoken out against Perry’s efforts to help former President Donald Trump overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Text messages released in a briefly unsealed court ruling last year showed that Perry lobbied to replace acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with Jeffrey Clark, a Justice Department civil attorney and Trump loyalist, who would overturn the results at Trump’s bidding.
Perry has not been charged with a crime.
Perry’s attorney, John Rowley, called the disclosure of Perry’s communications “unfortunate” in a statement to Politico. “The communications reflect his efforts to understand real-time information about the 2020 election,” he said. “They were confidential and intended to address critical business before Congress in the service of his constituents.”