{"id":1731957,"date":"2022-11-09T11:03:21","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1731957"},"modified":"2022-11-09T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:03:25","slug":"making-history-dccc-chairman-maloney-becomes-first-dem-campaign-chief-to-fall-in-four-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/making-history-dccc-chairman-maloney-becomes-first-dem-campaign-chief-to-fall-in-four-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"MAKING HISTORY: DCCC Chairman Maloney Becomes First Dem Campaign Chief To Fall in Four Decades"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fmaking-history-dccc-chairman-maloney-becomes-first-dem-campaign-chief-to-fall-in-four-decades%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=1731957&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>New York Democratic congressman Sean Patrick Maloney made history Wednesday, when he became the first Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair to lose reelection in four decades.<\/p>\n<p>Maloney called his opponent, Republican Mike Lawler, to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/npfandos\/status\/1590366059357405190?s=20&#038;t=1L0sKrflK5KwC4Hl6bkMQQ\">concede the race<\/a> around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, according to the <em>New York Times<\/em>. Maloney trailed Lawler by roughly 3,000 votes at the time of the call. The result is a deeply embarrassing one for Democrats, given that a DCCC chair has not lost reelection since 1980, when congressman Jim Corman lost to Republican Bobbi Fiedler in California&#8217;s 21st Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>Maloney&#8217;s tenure as House Democrats&#8217; campaign head was marked by months of gaffes and infighting. In February 2021, Maloney <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dcccs-new-senior-adviser-remains-on-parole-in-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hired<\/a> a former &#8220;triggerman&#8221; for an upstate New York gang to run the committee&#8217;s diversity and inclusion unit. Months later, in August 2021, the Democrat defied State Department guidelines when he traveled to France to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/maloney-french-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">party maskless at a billionaire&#8217;s estate<\/a>. Maloney went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dccc-chair-dings-vulnerable-house-dem-defends-biden-after-virginia-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publicly attack<\/a> one of his party&#8217;s most vulnerable House incumbents in November 2021, prompting some battleground district members to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/dems-in-disarray-vulnerable-members-slam-dccc-chairs-vanity-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">call<\/a> Maloney&#8217;s performance as campaign chair &#8220;a real fucking problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, none of those incidents match the firestorm Maloney started in May 2022, when he opted to run in New York&#8217;s 17th Congressional District instead of the 18th, which he currently represents. The decision forced fellow Democratic congressman Mondaire Jones, a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/satire\/sickening-racism-sexism-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black man<\/a> who was elected to the 17th district in 2020, to run elsewhere. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) responded by calling on Maloney to &#8220;step aside from his responsibilities of the DCCC,&#8221; while Rep. Ritchie Torres (D., N.Y.) accused Maloney of &#8220;thinly veiled racism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maloney also faced ethics issues during his campaign after he used taxpayer funds to hire both his husband&#8217;s personal trainer and a <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/sean-patrick-maloney-gave-taxpayer-funded-job-to-longtime-family-friend-with-no-political-experience\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">longtime family friend<\/a>, both of whom had no political experience. And as Maloney&#8217;s race tightened in its closing weeks, the Democrat told families struggling with inflation to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/sean-patrick-maloney-families-struggling-with-inflation-should-eat-chef-boyardee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eat Chef Boyardee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota congressman Tom Emmer, who chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee, celebrated Lawler&#8217;s win Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mike is the first candidate to defeat a DCCC chair since 1980 because he kept the Hudson Valley at the center of his campaign,&#8221; Emmer said in a statement. &#8220;The voters of Putnam, Westchester, and Rockland resoundingly rejected Sean Patrick Maloney&#8217;s pro-criminal policies.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Democratic congressman Sean Patrick Maloney made history Wednesday, when he became the first Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chair to lose reelection in four decades.<br \/>\nThe post MAKING HISTORY: DCCC Chairman Maloney Becomes First Dem Campaign Chief To Fall in Four Decades appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1731960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1731957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731957","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1731957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1731960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}