HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) – Scranton Mayor Page Cognetti announced his bid for the Pennsylvania legislature on Tuesday. Redraw the parliamentary boundaries.
The ranks of Democrats currently running for Congress in Pennsylvania include prominent mayors and national labor leaders, giving the party the topic of candidates they need ahead of next year’s Congressional election. At risk is the dominant majority of American homes.
Cognetti is a National Democrats campaign in a working-class city and has long been looking at the party’s best candidate to unleash freshman Rep. Rob Bresnahan. The district is filled with Democrats who recently supported President Donald Trump.
Cognetti will campaign as independent, conscious Democrats and mayor to combat canned corruption, in order to defeat party candidates in 2019 to get a top office in Scranton, a massive democratic city.
“The people here are tired of selfish politicians,” she said in an interview. “I showed in Scranton that we can build government for people and be honest with people. I’ve done it on an independent streak and I think we can bring it well across the district.”
Seats like Bresnahan will be of paramount importance in 2026. Democrats need just three seats to reverse control of American homes, and leaders say the path to the majority is likely to pass through Pennsylvania. The state owns four of the 35 seats across the country targeted by Democrats.
Three of those, including the neighborhoods currently represented by Bresnahan and freshman Republican Rep. Ryan McKenzie, The narrowest race Last year in the country. With Trump not in the vote next year, Democrats feel better given the long history of the presidential party’s midterm defeat, leaving his loyal voters apart.
Re-partitioned, not an option
For Pennsylvania Democrats, redrawing the state’s legislative boundaries to increase the likelihood of picking up seats is not an option.
It requires law, and such bills do not likely pass the state’s politically divided legislature. In other words, parties are relying on recruiting excellent candidates, a task that involves governments. Josh Shapiro, He himself is a potential White House candidate for 2028.
Cognetti, a Scranton-based district, is often a destination during the presidential election, with its split voters attracting candidates from both parties. That too Birthplace Former President Joe Biden.
Cognetti, 45, has experience with the US Treasury and Scranton School Board, and is considered a rising star in Pennsylvania by party operatives.
As mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvania’s seventh largest city, she has a good relationship with Shapiro and is the person she is sought after at political gatherings and presidential visits, whether she greets Biden or former Vice President Kamala Harris at the airport’s tarmac or warms up at the rally.
“The Democratic Party’s Future”
Her job is not easy. The district has voted for Trump in the last three presidential elections. Matt Cartwright, a Democrat who held it until last year, was Perennial targets Republicans.
Cognetti was at the top of the list of virtually every Democrat to succeed in Cartwright.
“We’ve been working hard to get into the world,” said Brittany Clumpy, a democratic campaign strategist in Pennsylvania. “People want to run to the seats we had to do strong armor last year to get candidates to say yes three years ago. ”
Crampsie said people like Cognetti are “the future of the Democratic Party.”
Cognetti’s candidacy is Democrats’ second biggest win in a week. Last week, Bob Brooks, head of the Pennsylvania Firefighters’ Union, declared his candidacy to challenge Mackenzie.
Five Democrats already run in the Allentown area area.
But Brooks is supported by Shapiro and is supported by a pair of unions, from US Congressman Chris Delugio and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. He speaks of his working class roots as a career firefighter and union man who runs his own landscaping and snow shooting company.
His campaign plays his volunteer work as a young baseball coach and his tattoo: the bulldog in a fire helmet.
“I think Labour is a Democrat, but I think Democrats need to talk about working class people and go back to that,” Brooks said in an interview. “Republicans, they talked about us, they spoke to us, and then they go down to DC and vote against us.”
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