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

nearly 54% of the vote.

Samantha Bullock, a spokesperson for Bresnahan’s campaign, pushed back on Cognetti and her allies’ framing of the race.

“Paige Cognetti would love this campaign to be about anything other than her failed leadership in Scranton,” Bullock said in a statement to CNN. “Rep. Bresnahan does not trade his own stocks, and Cognetti’s theatrics continue reading …