{"id":1642267,"date":"2022-09-15T20:04:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1642267"},"modified":"2022-09-15T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T00:05:00","slug":"two-navy-veterans-set-to-square-off-in-ny-district-22-house-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/two-navy-veterans-set-to-square-off-in-ny-district-22-house-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Navy Veterans Set to Square Off in NY District 22 House Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Ftwo-navy-veterans-set-to-square-off-in-ny-district-22-house-race%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=1642267&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>A former Naval intelligence officer and a tech entrepreneur and Navy veteran are set for battle in the race to represent New York\u2019s Congressional District 22, covering Syracuse and surrounding areas.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Francis Conole, former adviser to two defense secretaries, won a narrow victory in his primary. His Republican opponent Brandon Williams, a tech specialist and former\u00a0submarine missile officer, upset businessman Steve Wells, who was supported by most of the party establishment.<\/p>\n<p>Real Clear Politics rates the November race a toss-up.<\/p>\n<p>With the state\u2019s court-ordered redistricting, District 22 became more favorable to Democrats, taking in more of the blue Syracuse urban area as well as Utica to the east.<\/p>\n<p>District 22 Congresswoman Claudia Tenney, who represented Utica, Rome, and Binghamton and had won by only 109 votes, chose not to run in the new district. Instead, she won the Republican primary for sprawling District 24. More favorable for the GOP, it takes in some of Tenney\u2019s current district and stretches along Western New York\u2019s Lake Ontario shore, avoiding the Rochester metro area.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/09\/15\/52002478576_bf00e12d80_h-1200x801.jpg\"><\/a> U.S. Naval Academy graduate Francis Conole is the Democratic nominee for New York\u2019s 22nd Congressional District in November 2022. (Photo courtesy of Francis Conole Campaign.) <\/p>\n<p>Syracuse Congressman John Katko of the current District 24, is retiring. The former federal prosecutor was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach President Donald Trump. Katko didn\u2019t endorse anyone in the Republican primary, but many of his staffers worked for Wells, according to Syracuse.com.<\/p>\n<p>The state Conservative Party, whose cross-endorsement Republicans often seek, refused to support Katko for reelection and has endorsed Williams.<\/p>\n<p>The turbulent redistricting process concluded in May, only a month before New York\u2019s regularly scheduled primary. A court, deeming the Democrat legislature\u2019s map too slanted toward Democrats, assigned a judge as special master to draw a new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Naval intelligence officer and a tech entrepreneur and Navy veteran are set for battle in the race to represent New York\u2019s Congressional District 22, covering Syracuse and surrounding areas. Democrat Francis Conole, former adviser to two defense secretaries, won a narrow victory in his primary. His Republican opponent Brandon Williams, a tech specialist [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"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-1642267","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\/1642267","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\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642267\/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=1642267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}