HARRISBURG, Pa. —

Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti on Tuesday announced a bid for Congress in Pennsylvania, adding yet another competitive Democrat to the 2026 midterm election lineup in a state that gives her party perhaps its best chance to gain multiple seats without redrawing congressional lines .

The ranks of Democrats now running for Congress in Pennsylvania include a prominent mayor and a state labor leader, and give the party the kind of candidate-recruitment buzz it needs ahead of next year’s congressional elections. At stake is a controlling majority in the U.S. House. Advertisement

Cognetti, a mainstay on stage when national Democrats campaign in her working-class city, has long been viewed as the party’s best candidate to try to unseat freshman Rep. Rob Bresnahan. The distri

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