Pa. poll: Stelson leads Perry in 10th District, Shapiro holds double-digit edge
The poll found Stelson narrowly ahead of Scott Perry in the 10th District race.

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A Franklin & Marshall College poll found Janelle Stelson narrowly ahead of Scott Perry in Pennsylvania’s 10th District, while Josh Shapiro led Stacy Garrity in the governor’s race. The survey also found economic concerns prominent among voters.
The September poll surveyed 747 registered voters in Pennsylvania’s 7th and 10th districts from Sept. 9 to Sept. 20. In the 10th District congressional race, Stelson had 47% support to Perry’s 44%, with 9% undecided. Shapiro led Garrity in both districts, and respondents gave mixed assessments of Shapiro’s performance as governor.
The poll identified the economy and personal finances as voters’ leading concerns. It also found many respondents said they were worse off financially than a year earlier and had difficulty affording some household expenses. Majorities in both districts rated President Donald Trump’s job performance as poor, and more respondents said his administration’s policies had hurt them than helped them.
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4 OUTLETSA Franklin & Marshall College poll found Janelle Stelson narrowly ahead of Scott Perry in Pennsylvania’s 10th District. Center outlets report the close poll result, with attention to voters’ economic concerns; unrated outlets vary between foregrounding the economy and placing the result alongside other races.
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