Ex-GOP representatives are backing Scott Perry’s Democratic challenger in the Pennsylvania House race

Five former House Republicans wrote a letter Monday urging voters to get out the vote battlefield state of Pennsylvania not to 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 told their fellow Republicans that “they know how hard it is to vote for a vote.” member of the other political party,” but to join them in supporting Perry’s Democratic challenger, Janelle Stelson. Among other concerns, the five mainly condemned Perry’s “shameful self-interest” and “involvement in the plot to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election.”

Pennsylvania’s 10th District has been represented since 2013 by Perry, the former Speaker and current member of the House Freedom Caucus. Perry is the only sitting member of Congress to have his cellphone seized by the FBI in its investigation into efforts to overturn the results of the election. The 2020 presidential election, and that has also become a theme in television advertising. The race between him and Stelson recently shifted from a Republican stance to a toss-up, according to the Fox News power rankings.

“After playing a direct role in the effort to overturn the will of Pennsylvania voters, Perry had his cell phone seized by the FBI and has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal defense fees,” the letter said. Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified under oath that Perry had sought a presidential pardon for his actions leading up to the deadly attack. January 6 Uprising.”

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The five former Republicans in the House of Representatives also say that Perry’s “lack of remorse for his actions is a slap in the face to every official who made the United States the greatest country in the world.” Our nation deserves better than someone who was so easily murdered. willing to break his sworn oath to the Constitution because of political opportunism.”

“At this moment of great importance in American history, we need leaders who will tell the truth and be willing to work in a bipartisan manner, regardless of which side we have to deliver for Americans,” they wrote, according to the letter. obtained by Mediaite. “Janelle Stelson is the candidate in this race who will do just that. Janelle was a Republican 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, upholding the Constitution and supporting democracy and fair elections .”

Perry’s district has favored Republicans since it was re-elected in 2018, and Trump won it by four percentage points in 2020, according to The Associated Press.

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Now that Perry is running for a seventh term, he faces a major challenge.

Stelson, a former TV news anchor and former Republican, has raised more than $1 million more than Perry, prompting House Republicans to come to his aid in their bid to maintain their slim majority. Democrats have outspent Republicans in the race so far, according to AdImpact, which tracks campaign ad spending. They spent more than $7 million last week, compared to the more than $4 million Republicans spent.

By shifting the Perry-Stelson contest more toward the Democrat earlier this month, the nonpartisan Cook Political Report surmised that while the “political climate should still favor Perry, his unique vulnerabilities, coupled with the Democrats’ spending advantage, to throw this Lean Republican race.”

Letter from former Republican lawmakers claims Stelson ‘will cooperate’ Republicans and Democrats to find common ground,” while Perry is “consistently rated as one of the least bipartisan members of Congress” and is “routinely the only member of Pennsylvania’s delegation – Republican or Democrat – to oppose common-sense measures that would improve the lives of its members. voters, including legislation to protect firefighters and crack down on human trafficking.” They allege 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 health care and compensation to service members suffering from toxic burn exposure.

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“These are the men and women who risked – and in many cases gave – their lives to defend our freedom,” said the five former Republicans in the House of Representatives.

Remy Numa of Fox News and The Associated Press contributed to this report.