{"id":1732223,"date":"2022-11-09T14:13:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1732223"},"modified":"2022-11-09T14:17:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:17:52","slug":"republican-mike-lawler-unseats-democrat-house-veteran-of-30-years-in-historic-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-mike-lawler-unseats-democrat-house-veteran-of-30-years-in-historic-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Mike Lawler Unseats Democrat House Veteran of 30-Years in Historic Upset"},"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\">24<\/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%2Frepublican-mike-lawler-unseats-democrat-house-veteran-of-30-years-in-historic-upset%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=1732223&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 class=\"speakable\">Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Sean Patrick Maloney was defeated by GOP nominee and State Assemblyman Mike Lawler in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democratic-congressional-campaign-committee-chair-maloney-concedes-historic-house-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">historic House loss<\/a> in Tuesday&#8217;s midterm election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Lawler, who ran heavily on crime and the economy, will unseat the longtime Democratic congressman who has held <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/m\/sean-patrick-maloney\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York&#8217;s 17th Congressional seat<\/a> for 30 years, The Associated Press projects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he took it for granted.&#8221; Lawler said in an interview with Fox News Digital on Wednesday. &#8220;As recently as a month ago he was traveling to Paris, London and Geneva to raise money for the DCCC. He did not start campaigning seriously in the district until a couple of weeks ago.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foxnews.com\/live-news\/2022-midterm-elections-voting-results-predictions-candidates-updates\"><strong><u>MIDTERM ELECTIONS 2022: LIVE UPDATES<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/640\/320\/lawler-speaking-at-mic-e1666702992426.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Assemblyman Mike Lawler, Republican candidate for the 17th Congressional District, unseats longtime Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Assemblyman Mike Lawler, Republican candidate for the 17th Congressional District, unseats longtime Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Reuters)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Maloney has come under fire in recent days for suggesting that families struggling with the impacts of inflation eat Chef Boyardee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These comments come on the heels of Maloney&#8217;s frequent trips to high-end European cities over the summer to raise money for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Democrats<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lawler made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crime a key focus<\/a> of his campaign, running in a district where over half of the households have a cop, veteran or first-responder living in them, according to Lawler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/democratic-congressional-campaign-committee-chair-maloney-concedes-historic-house-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE CHAIR MALONEY CONCEDES IN HISTORIC HOUSE LOSS<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 767px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" \/><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/640\/320\/Maloney-2.jpg?ve=1&#038;tl=1\" alt=\"Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney has held New York&#039;s 17th Congressional seat since 1992.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p>\n      Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney has held New York&#8217;s 17th Congressional seat since 1992.<br \/>\n      <span class=\"copyright\">(Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Despite this big-ticket win, the upset was one of only a handful House pickups for Republicans on a night where many political analysts and polls predicted a &#8220;red wave.&#8221; The balance of power in the House is still in play with many races still uncalled.<\/p>\n<p>Lawler still believes it is feasible to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/economy\/inflation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tamp down inflation<\/a> and address crime, despite a potentially slim Republican majority in the House. A &#8220;majority is a majority,&#8221; Lawler said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/apps-products?pid=AppArticleLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to be able to find compromise, and you have to be able to work across the aisle,&#8221; said Lawler, who will soon be representing a district in Congress with 70,000 more Democrats than Republicans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-bio\">\n<p>Sophia Slacik is a production assistant for Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair Sean Patrick Maloney was defeated by GOP nominee and State Assemblyman Mike Lawler in a historic House loss in Tuesday&#8217;s midterm election.Lawler, who ran heavily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1732226,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1732223","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1732226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}