{"id":1732160,"date":"2022-11-09T13:33:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T18:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1732160"},"modified":"2022-11-09T14:41:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:41:56","slug":"democrats-take-major-loss-as-dccc-chair-concedes-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-take-major-loss-as-dccc-chair-concedes-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Take Major Loss As DCCC Chair Concedes In New York"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fdemocrats-take-major-loss-as-dccc-chair-concedes-in-new-york%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=1732160&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 href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york\">New York<\/a> Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney became the first Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)\u00a0chair to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/saradorn\/2022\/10\/24\/sean-patrick-maloney-risks-being-first-dccc-chair-to-lose-seat-in-40-years-in-latest-sign-of-midterm-trouble-for-democrats\/?sh=4d6132805519\">lose<\/a> his seat in 40 years when he conceded to Republican challenger Mike Lawler on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lawler, a first-term assemblyman, focused on crime and inflation to knock off the incumbent in the typically liberal 17th congressional district of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Lawler, as of Wednesday afternoon, is at\u00a050.6%, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2022\/11\/08\/us\/elections\/results-new-york-us-house-district-17.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">compared<\/a> to Maloney\u2019s 49.4%, with about 95% of the vote counted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t like to lose, but my opponent won this race. He won it fair and square. That means something,\u201d the big money-backed Democrat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/09\/nyregion\/sean-patrick-maloney-lawler.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Wednesday. \u201cThe right thing to do is say the other guy won and wish him well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Early in the race,\u00a0Maloney had a big advantage in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/members-of-congress\/sean-patrick-maloney\/summary?cid=N00034277&amp;cycle=CAREER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cash<\/a> on hand, with\u00a0$2.4 million compared to Lawler\u2019s $435,588.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrat was expected to win re-election before the race tightened in late October. That\u2019s when the DCCC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2022\/10\/24\/dccc-spending--605-000-on-new-ad-for-rep--sean-patrick-maloney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a> it was\u00a0spending $605,000 on ads attacking Lawler.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of GOP-aligned dollars were used to help back Lawler pick off Maloney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongressman Maloney was very gracious. He said I ran a great race and deserved to win. I was very humbled,\u201d Lawler <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/11\/08\/ny-election-day-live-updates-hochul-zeldin-governor-race-others\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> after the win.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP seemed hopeful they could take the deep-blue state of New York by knocking off Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, too, but fell short. The Democratic stronghold proved too much for Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin, despite the state\u2019s crime issues and continued inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will lead with strength and compassion, not anger and fear,\u201d Hochul <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/11\/09\/nyregion\/kathy-hochul-governor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> following her win, adding, \u201cthe lesson of tonight\u2019s victory is that given the choice, New Yorkers refused to go backward in our long march toward progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/roundup-heres-whats-happening-in-key-governor-matchups\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roundup: Here\u2019s What\u2019s Happening In Key Governor\u00a0Matchups<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney became the first Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC)\u00a0chair to lose his seat in 40 years when he conceded to Republican challenger Mike Lawler on Wednesday. Lawler, a first-term assemblyman, focused on crime and inflation to knock off the incumbent in the typically liberal 17th congressional district of New York. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":1890594,"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":"Democrats Take Major Loss As DCCC Chair Concedes In New York","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Democrats Take Major Loss As DCCC Chair Concedes In New York","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732160","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}