Mircales can happen even on election day. In an incredible upset for the House Democrats, Republican Mike Lawler won a seat in the US Congress representing the New York State’s Seventeenth Congressional District. Lawler defeated their party’s top campaign chief, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.
Democrats’ main super PAC, House Majority PAC, threw over half a million dollars behind Maloney in a last-ditch attempt to save him. Democrats werent the only ones to spend million in this race as the Republican’s main super PAC, Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF), and the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) also spent millions on the race to unseat the Democratic party’s top campaign chief.
Mike Lawler, the New York Republican who unseated the Democratic campaign chair, tells us he wants to see the GOP move on from Trump. “I would like to see the party move forward. I think any time you are focused on the future, you can't so much go to the past,” Lawler says. pic.twitter.com/8b3nxlB6Ll
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) November 10, 2022
Looking back on the campaign what is interesting is that the super PAC and the congressman’s Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) lacked the funds needed to help vulnerable members of the party.
However, last week the Cook Political Report moved New York’s Seventeenth Congressional District from “Lean Democrat” to “Toss Up.”
After the rating change, the publication’s editor explained the significance of. deafeated democrat since “a sitting DCCC/NRCC chair had not lost reelection since 1992 (when NRCC Chair Guy Vander Jagt lost his primary in Michigan), and hasn’t lost a general election since 1980 when DCCC Chair Jim Corman lost in California.”
"Republicans are going to have a majority in the House of Representatives and we're going to be able to stop the Biden agenda dead in its tracks."
Mike Lawler [@lawler4ny] reacts to his win against top House Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney.
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It was after this change of status that the Democratic PAC’s began pouring money into the race. Money they claimed not to have before hand.
NRCC Chairman Tom Emmer released a statement congratulating Lawler on his “historic victory” after the race was called.
“Mike is the first candidate to defeat a DCCC Chair since 1980 because he kept the Hudson Valley at the center of his campaign,” Emmer added. “The voters of Putnam, Westchester, and Rockland resoundingly rejected Sean Patrick Maloney’s pro-criminal policies. I look forward to working with Mike to lower costs and protect our communities.”
