| Rob Bresnahan has a confession to make. After breaking his promise to ban congressional stock trading by making hundreds of stock trades worth millions of dollars while in office, Bresnahan now admits that his corruption is going to cost him his seat.
One expert told NOTUS that “Bresnahan’s apparent about-face amounts to an admission that his stock trading was a significant vulnerability in his reelection campaign.”
Reminder: When asked why he simply wouldn’t stop trading in Congress, Bresnahan whined that he did not want to “lose money and go broke.” Bresnahan also confessed to having direct conversations with his financial advisor about his upcoming stock positions while voting in office.
And polling from last year confirms that Bresnahan’s corruption will hurt his campaign. The majority of PA-08 voters had already heard about his stock trading as of August, and the majority of voters expressed “very serious concerns” once given more information about his broken promise.
DCCC Spokesperson Eli Cousin:
“Rob Bresnahan can’t cleanse the stench of his corruption by simply hitting the pause button on his portfolio. NEPA voters are going to continue to hear about how Bresnahan has played the market while voting to screw them over in Washington – it will define his time in Washington and be a major reason why he will lose his seat.” |
