Harrisburg, PA (AP) – the mayor of Scranton, Paige Cogetti, announced an offer for the congress in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and added another competitive democrat for the intermediate election 2026 in a state on Tuesday that gives her party the best chance of gaining more seats without building up congress management.
The ranks of the Democrats, which are now running for the congress in Pennsylvania, include a prominent mayor and a state operator, and give the party the type of candidate recruitment that he needs before the elections of the congress of the congress next year. There is a controlling majority in the US house at the game.
Cogetti, a main support on the stage, when the National Democrat campaign in its city of the working class has long been seen as the party’s best candidate to try to try Rep. Rob Breschan, the representative of Freshman. The district is full of democrats who have recently supported President Donald Trump.
As an independent Democrat and CAN-DO corruption mayor, Cogneti will enter, who defeated the party’s candidates in 2019 to take the top office in Scranton, a strongly democratic city.
“The people here are fed up with self -service politicians,” she said in an interview. “I showed in Scranton that we can build a government for people and be honest with people. I did it with an independent series and I think we will be able to successfully do this in the entire district.”
Seats like Bresnahman’s will be of the greatest importance in 2026: Democrats only need three seats to control the US house and the party leaders say that the path to the majority is likely to go through Pennsylvania. The state holds four of the 35 seats nationwide to the Democrats.
Three of those – including the neighboring districts, which are now represented by Bresahhan and the Republican Republican of Freshman, Ryan Mackenzie – were among the country’s closest races in the past year. Without Trump on the ballot paper next year to bring out his true voters – and the long history of the medium -term defeats for the President’s party – Democrats have reason to feel good.
Distribution no option
For Democrats in Pennsylvania, it is not an option to augment the state’s congress limits in order to augment their chances of taking seats.
This requires laws and no such draft would probably pass the politically split legislator of the state. This means that the party is based on the recruitment of good candidates, a task that governor Josh Shapiro is concerned with a potential competitor for the White House.
The Cogneti district based in the Scranton is often a goal during the presidential campaigns, with his shared electorate wearing candidates from both parties. It is also the birthplace of former President Joe Biden.
The 45 -year -old Cogneti has experience in the US finance department and with the Scranton School Board and is seen by party members as an emerging star in Pennsylvania.
As the mayor of Scranton, Pennsylvanias 7th Big-Stadt-Stadt, she has a good relationship with Shapiro and is a coveted personality in political rallies and during the presidential visits, regardless of whether it is a greeting of bidges or former vice president Kamala Harris at the airport asphalt or when warming up in her rallies.
“The future of the Democratic Party”
Your task is not straightforward: the district voted for Trump in the last three presidential election, and the Democrat, who held it until last year, held Matt Cartwright, was a constant goal of the Republican.
Cogetti was practically on the list of democrats to follow Cartwright.
“Top Domp, next year, I was blew by recruitment,” said Brittany Crampsie, a democratic campaign strategist in Pennsylvania. “People want to run in seats where we had to make candidates saying candidates last year, three years ago.”
Crampsie said people like Cogneti are “the future of the Democratic Party”.
Cogetti’s candidacy is the second substantial get for Democrats in a week. Last week the head of the state fire brigade union of Pennsylvania, Bob Brooks, explained his candidacy, Mackenzie.
The Allentown district in the Alltous region is already running with five Democrats.
But Brooks has the support of Shapiro and the support of a few unions, the US representative Chris Deltio and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. He talks about his roots of the working class as a firefighter and union man, who runs his own landscape and snow-covered company.
His campaign plays his volunteer work as a youth baseball coach and his tattoo: a bulldog in a fire helmet.
“I think the party of work is the democratic party, but I don’t think the democratic party speaks more about or the workers of the working class, and I think we have to return to it,” said Brooks in an interview. “The Republicans, they talked about us, they talk to us, but then they go to DC and vote against us.”
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