The Republican Congressional Leadership Fund aimed their financial fire to target Representative and Democrat Congressional Committee Chair Sean Patrick Maloney, pouring millions into the New York 17 campaign. For all the GOP missteps this cycle, they got this one right. Republican Michael Lawler has defeated Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney 51-49; a razor-thin margin, but still a winning one.
From The New York Post:
Republican Michael Lawler maintained a slender lead over one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, in a race that went to the wire early Wednesday morning.
Just 3,000 votes of the more than 278,000 cast separated the two men, who spent the summer and fall campaigning to represent the 17th Congressional District, which covers much of Westchester and the lower Hudson Valley.
“We are not yet ready to declare victory, but with a few more votes counted, we are poised to make history,” Lawler told supporters, acknowledging the closeness of the race, at his election night party in Rockland County.
On Wednesday, Rep. Maloney conceded the race, securing the win for Lawler.
Thirty years ago was the last time that a sitting House campaign chairman lost reelection, and it was a Republican. National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Guy Vander Jagt was primaried in 1992. It has been 50 years since a sitting chair lost a general election— that was California Democratic Rep. Jim Corman.
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