‘Paige against the machine’: How a Democrat who bucked her party is now targeting a swing House district

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. Wary of the county Democratic Party’s closed nominating process, she ran as an independent. That fall, she found herself in a court...

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