The incumbent Republican was declared the winner just before 6 a.m. Wednesday.
Republican Mike Lawler won reelection in New York’s 17th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press, marking a major victory for the GOP and a setback for Democrats who hoped to win back a crucial swing seat in the Hudson Valley.
He later told Gothamist he was “ecstatic” about his victory in a district with roughly 80,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans. in contributions and SuperPAC spending. At Lawler’s election night party, Connecticut resident Kevin Alan said he was concerned about public safety and the economy and decided to travel to the Hudson Valley to support Lawler on election night.
Rockland County resident Jacob Tanenbaum, a Democrat who volunteered for the Jones campaign, said he was concerned about what he wasn’t hearing from voters, or GOP candidates. That year, Lawler defeated Sean Patrick Maloney, then the chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which parcels out the party’s campaign resources. Lawler’s candidacy was lifted by a redistricting process that disadvantaged Democrats, as well as a Republican attack strategy that painted Democrats as soft on crime. The outcome was considered one of the key upsets that cost Democrats control of the House.
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