In addition to the primary races, New Yorkers elected two new House members to fill vacancies for the rest of the year.ĭemocrat Pat Ryan won one of the special elections, a battleground race in southern and central New York to replace Democrat Antonio Delgado, who became New York’s lieutenant governor. Chris Jacobs, who decided not to seek reelection after facing backlash from his own party for voicing support for an assault weapons ban following a racist mass shooting in his hometown of Buffalo in May.Ī WIN FOR REPUBLICANS, A WIN FOR DEMOCRATS IN SPECIAL ELECTIONS The heated primary came as Langworthy and Paladino sought to replace GOP Rep. Alessandra Biaggi in New York’s new 17th District, home to idyllic towns along the historic Hudson River Valley. Sean Patrick Maloney, who became New York’s first openly gay congressman when he was elected a decade ago, survived a primary challenge from state Sen. HOUSE DEMOCRATS’ CAMPAIGN CHIEF WINS PRIMARY Among the contenders was Jones, a congressman from the New York City suburbs, who moved to the area to run and finished third in the primary. Goldman, a Democratic attorney who built his reputation as a federal mob and securities fraud prosecutor but made a national name for himself as House Democrats’ lead counsel in Trump’s first impeachment hearing, won a crowded primary for New York’s 10th District, which attracted a bevy of progressive candidates. With Nadler and Maloney running in the district immediately north, a congressional seat covering southern Manhattan, including Wall Street, and Brooklyn, was a rare open contest in one of the most liberal and influential areas of the country. Matt Gaetz, a conservative firebrand, won his primary with the specter of a federal investigation looming over him. In Florida, an incumbent Republican narrowly defeated a far-right provocateur. Democrats held on to a swing district in a special election - at least for a few more months.
In other races in the state, the chair of the House Democrats’ campaign arm, Sean Patrick Maloney, survived a primary challenge of his own from a progressive. Mondaire Jones, a first-term progressive who was one of the first openly gay Black members of Congress, was defeated by Daniel Goldman, a former federal prosecutor who served as counsel to House Democrats in the first impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. Carolyn Maloney, a 15-term incumbent who chairs a powerful House committee, lost to longtime colleague Rep.
House after redistricting shuffled congressional districts in one of the nation’s largest liberal states. NEW YORK (AP) - In a cluster of contentious Democratic primaries Tuesday, two New York incumbents were ousted from the U.S.
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