2022 race briefing
Jerry Dickinson is a law professor and housing rights activist who has campaigned on Medicare for All and the Green New Deal. He first ran for Congress in 2020, challenging incumbent Rep. Michael Doyle in the Democratic primary for Pennsylvania’s 18th District. He lost that race with 32.8% of the vote.
In 2022 he ran for Pennsylvania’s 12th District. In the May 17, 2022 Democratic primary, Dickinson finished third with 10.9%. Summer Lee won the nomination with 41.9%, narrowly ahead of Steve Irwin at 41.0%. Lee then won the November 8, 2022 general election.
PolRev covered his 2022 campaign.