Election 2024: Rep. Mike Lawler, Mondaire Jones face off in key Home race for NY-17 Congressional seat
ROCKLAND COUNTY, New York (WABC) — Within the suburbs north of New York Metropolis, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler faces former U.S. Rep. Mondaire Jones, a Democrat who beforehand represented a part of the district earlier than its boundaries had been redrawn for the 2022 election.
Jones, one of many first two brazenly homosexual Black males to serve within the Home, portrayed Lawler as somebody who “masquerades as a reasonable on tv however votes similar to an excessive MAGA Republican.”
Lawler says Jones is the one masquerading as a centrist when he’s liberal.
“Individuals need reasonableness,” Lawler mentioned in an interview earlier than the election. “They need of us who’re keen to work throughout the aisle to get issues finished.”
Marcus Solis has extra on the race in New York’s seventeenth Congressional District between Mike Lawler and Mondaire Jones.
The race acquired additional consideration in early October when The New York Instances obtained a photograph displaying Lawler carrying blackface in 2006 at a university Halloween celebration the place he dressed as Michael Jackson. Lawler mentioned the outfit was supposed to be an homage to a childhood idol.
Jones apologized for a remark that advised he known as Governor Kathy Hochul the “b” phrase.
Two years in the past, NY-17 was determined by 1,800 votes. 2024 may very well be one other nail-biter.
Different Home races to look at within the Hudson Valley:
Within the 18th district, incumbent Democrat Pat Ryan and Republican Alison Esposito face one another in a swing district.
Ryan is a former Ulster County government and navy veteran.
Esposito is a former NYPD deputy inspector, who ran for lieutenant governor in 2022.
Within the nineteenth district, incumbent Republican Marc Molinaro is operating towards democrat Josh Riley. This race can also be a rematch. In 2022, Molinaro beat Riley by a slim margin.
For extra details about what’s on the poll in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, please verify our Voter Information.
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(The Related Press contributed to this report)
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