Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti’s (D-PA) decision to pursue a seat in Congress while simultaneously seeking — and ultimately winning — re-election as mayor on November 4, 2025, has raised concerns across Pennsylvania’s 8th Congressional District where she continues to campaign to unseat freshman GOP Rep. Rob Bresnahan in 2026.
In her re-election campaign for mayor, Cognetti underperformed her 2021 margin of victory by 15 points, signaling weakening support in the very city she now asks to serve at the federal level. The NRCC seized on the dual-office bid, with spokesman Reilly Richardson stating, “Being a shameless political opportunist isn’t easy, so we figured Portland Paige could
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