He is a member of the Republican Party and represented the 16th district until the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania redrew it in 2018 due to gerrymandering.

[3] For 25 years, he served as president of the Smucker Company, a family-owned commercial construction firm in Smoketown[4] that received $4.83 million in PPP loans in 2020[5] and 2021[6] that were subsequently forgiven.

[4] In 2008, after 23-year incumbent Gib Armstrong decided to retire, Smucker entered the four-way Republican primary to succeed him, receiving 47% of the vote.

[8] In the general election, he defeated the Democratic nominee, Lancaster City Council member José E. Urdaneta, 57%-43%.

[9] On November 8, 2016, Smucker defeated Christina Hartman with 53% of the vote in the race to replace the retiring Joe Pitts in Congress.

To make up for the loss in population, it was shifted to the west, absorbing most of the more rural eastern portion of York County.

[15] According to Nate Cohn of The New York Times, these trends theoretically left Smucker vulnerable in a Democratic wave.

[16] According to Cohn, the Republican-controlled state legislature had placed the more Democratic areas of Chester and Berks counties into the 16th in order to protect Republican incumbents in neighboring districts.

As Cohn put it, the loss of those areas and the addition of part of York County had the effect of making what was already a "naturally Republican" district even more so.

[26] Smucker supports allowing individuals to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into personal retirement accounts.

[33] Smucker supports capital punishment and voted to expand the federal death penalty for killings of police officers.