Two years ago, Republican Rep. Mike Lawler pulled off a massive upset in deep blue New York that helped tip the scales in favor of Republicans in the House of Representatives, and now Democrats are gunning to take it back.
Democrats are spending “tens of millions of dollars” this cycle to unseat him in the 17th Congressional District in the Hudson Valley, but Lawler told Newsmax on Monday that he feels “very good” about his position two weeks from the election.
Lawler in 2022 knocked off incumbent Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, then chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Now, it’s progressive and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., disciple Mondaire Jones whom Democrats have tabbed to try and return the favor.
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