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

as county Democratic leaders sought to have the special election reclassified, potentially booting her and three other candidates off the ballot.

“To sit there in a courtroom and have the local Democrats trying to essentially rig the election, it made me realize how right I was, that we needed to step up,” Cognetti told CNN.

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