Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), a member of the House Freedom Caucus, won Pennsylvania’s 10th congressional district on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press (AP).
Perry won Pennsylvania’s competitive congressional district on Tuesday, defeating Democrat challenger George Scott. The Pennsylvania Republican originally had a relatively safe district until the Pennsylvania Supreme Court redistricted the seat, making the seat more competitive. A recent New York Times poll had Perry leading Scott by two points.
Democrat Scott’s campaign struck controversy over the weekend when a photo, taken in 1989 or 1990, showed Scott, pointing a gun at the head of a solider to produce what was “intended as a comic image.”
Talk radio host and Rush Limbaugh guest host Ken Matthews slammed the Pennsylvania Democrat in a post on Facebook, saying, “I don’t want this guy anywhere near our U.S. Congress.”
Congressman Perry slammed his Democratic opponent, claiming that the picture revealed that Scott had a “horrific lapse in judgment.”
Perry said, “There’s just no reasonable explanation, and of course it’s a horrific lapse in judgment. He said, ‘well the gun wasn’t loaded,’ or there’s the question whether his finger was on the trigger and it clearly looks like it is on the photograph, but there’s absolutely there no reason to do something like that.”
The Pennsylvania Republican continued:
This is a job interview essentially for one of the most important positions in our country, and you just have to say to yourself if you saw that photo, would you hire that person to work in your country, would you hire this person to babysit your children, or would you question their judgment?
Perry concluded, “I will tell you having from my perspective having spent a little time in Washington, DC, we don’t need another politician that will say one thing at home and do another thing in Washington, DC.”
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