The Washington Sun: The Democratic Brand Is a Mess. Some Democrats Are Taking Advantage.

Paige Cognetti, running in Pennsylvania, is one of the Democrats making the case, as one voter put it, that elections don’t need to be “between shit and diarrhea.”

Paige Cognetti is trying to be the kind of Democratic candidate Republicans want to have a beer with.

It’s why her congressional campaign held a meet and greet at a local brewery here Sunday (her fourth such event) during which the candidate — dressed casually in jeans and a red-and-black flannel shirt — talked about her husband’s local sandwich shop and her “deep love of craft beer.” Or why, politically speaking, she’s perfectly happy to pick a fight with fellow Democrats if they stand in her way.