Democrats have a strong slate of candidates running in the primary for Pennsylvania’s 10th Congressional District, all salivating at the chance to take on media-fearing Freedom Caucus chairman Scott Perry, the Republican who currently holds the seat. According to the Daily Beast, one of those in the running is literally a Top Gun pilot, not a poser like a certain Republican Florida governor.
Mike O’Brien, a retired Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who as a F-35 stealth fighter pilot completed the famed TOPGUN school, retired after 20 years and moved from a Philadelphia suburb to Harrisburg specifically to challenge Perry after seeing Perry’s support of the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress to install Trump to a second term.
PA-10 is rated an R+5 district, but Perry’s antics are grating on the nerves of the island of “purple” voters around Harrisburg who float in the sea of Pennsyltucky’s Republican “T” consisting of counties that bisect the state north-to-south and those along the northern border. Perry has run largely without opposition in Republican primaries since his first election to Congress in 2012, and he remains without a serious GOP challenger. In the general election, though, a strong Democratic candidate could take the district if high voter turnout pushes the vote.