| New reporting from CNN highlights how Janelle Stelson is holding Congressman Scott Perry accountable for spiking prices at the pump because of his support for spending billions of dollars on a war overseas.
Janelle tells CNN: “We should be spending money at home, not $1 billion a day for a war in Iran.”
Congressman Perry’s response? “Perry’s campaign did not respond to requests from CNN.”
Read highlights from the story for yourself:
- Republicans had spent the weeks before the war touting lower prices under President Donald Trump. Now, with the national average for gas rising above $4 a gallon for the first time since 2022 and Trump’s economic approval ratings hitting a record low, Democrats are seeking to tie the war to their broader affordability message, arguing that Republicans are more focused on foreign affairs than reducing costs at home.
- The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House Democrats’ campaign arm, started running digital ads last month in all of their 44 target districts blaming congressional Republicans for higher gas prices.
- Some Democratic candidates like Janelle Stelson, who is seeking a rematch against Rep. Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, have taken their message directly to the voters at gas stations in the districts they seek to represent.
- “We should be spending money at home, not $1 billion a day for a war in Iran,” Stelson told CNN in an interview. “Meantime, you have everybody here in central Pennsylvania saying, ‘Look at me. I need help. I could use a little, teeny piece of that money.’”
- (The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, DC-based think tank, has estimated the war costs more than $890 million a day.)
- Perry’s campaign did not respond to requests from CNN […]
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