Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti is challenging Republican Rep. Rob Bresnahan in Pennsylvania's competitive 8th Congressional District.
Cognetti gained prominence by running as an independent for mayor. She later won reelection as a Democrat.
She is framing her campaign around Bresnahan's stock trading record and pledging to reject corporate PAC money.
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In 2019, Paige Cognetti launched her campaign for mayor of Scranton, where the incumbent had resigned from office before pleading guilty to federal corruption charges.
