{"id":1618475,"date":"2022-08-22T07:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T11:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618475"},"modified":"2022-08-22T07:19:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T11:19:41","slug":"upstart-progressive-tests-establishment-democrat-in-hudson-valley-congressional-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/upstart-progressive-tests-establishment-democrat-in-hudson-valley-congressional-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Upstart Progressive Tests \u2018Establishment\u2019 Democrat in Hudson Valley Congressional Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fupstart-progressive-tests-establishment-democrat-in-hudson-valley-congressional-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618475&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Five-term Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) is seeking reelection in his Aug. 23 Democratic primary by touting his record as a moderate dealmaker who can win competitive elections in a swing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-hudson-valley\">Hudson Valley<\/a> congressional district won by former President Donald Trump in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Maloney, a self-described \u201cgay guy with an interracial family,\u201d has represented <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-new-york\">New York<\/a>\u2019s purple Congressional District 18 (CD 18) for a decade.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s not running for a sixth term in CD 18, rated by FiveThirtyEight as a \u201ctoss-up\u201d district in November\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Maloney is campaigning for the party\u2019s primary nod in neighboring CD 17, a Democrat-leaning district spanning parts of Rockland, Dutchess, and Putnam counties where he lives in Cold Spring.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/08\/22\/Biaggi-in-Congers-in-early-August-1200x720.png\"><\/a> New York Congressional District 17 Democratic primary candidate state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi (D-Bronx) addresses voters in Congers in early August during her progressive campaign against moderate Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY). (Courtesy of Alessandra for Congress) <\/p>\n<p>Maloney\u2019s calculated maneuver to seek reelection in CD 17 rather than in CD 18 where he had won five elections since 2012 was fostered by May\u2019s refashioning of the state\u2019s congressional district map by a judge-appointed special master.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats now control 18 of New York\u2019s 27 congressional seats. But the state lost its 27th congressional seat in post-2020 Census reapportionment.<\/p>\n<p>A 26-district map adopted for the 2022 midterms by the state\u2019s Democrat-controlled General Assembly was rejected as gerrymandering in court rulings, which required a special master to re-craft them in a less partisan manner.<\/p>\n<p>Because the final map wasn\u2019t published until May, New York\u2019s 2022 primaries were divided into two elections. Preliminary contests between party rivals for statewide positions, such as governor, were staged June 28 with those for congressional and state senate districts set for Aug. 23.<\/p>\n<p>Maloney\u2019s decision to run in CD 17 had a ripple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five-term Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) is seeking reelection in his Aug. 23 Democratic primary by touting his record as a moderate dealmaker who can win competitive elections in a swing Hudson Valley congressional district won by former President Donald Trump in 2016. Maloney, a self-described \u201cgay guy with an interracial family,\u201d has represented New [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}