| Just one week into the general election in New York’s 17th District, things are already looking awfully bleak for vulnerable Republican Mike Lawler.
National Republicans spent $1.5 million in dark money trying to handpick Lawler’s opponent for him, but NY-17 voters didn’t take the bait. Now, the fake moderate and MAGA lapdog is stuck running against the VERY candidate he and his big party bosses went to extraordinary lengths to keep off the ballot, and the brutal press coverage is piling up.
Catch up on the headlines for yourself…
- Republican Rep. Mike Lawler didn’t get the outcome he appeared to want in Tuesday’s election. Army veteran Cait Conley has emerged victorious in the bitter Democratic primary for New York’s 17th Congressional District, setting up a general election fight between a past national security staffer for former President Joe Biden and Lawler.
- She’ll now move on to the general election in a district that has been called the most vulnerable House seat in the country, and Lawler, a political operative turned lawmaker, will now have to defend it.
- If Lawler’s past actions are any indication, Conley’s win is bad news for him. Tuesday’s result means Lawler’s efforts to meddle in the primary and sink Conley have fallen flat.
- The ad is paid for by Progressive Champions PAC, which sounds like a democratic leaning group but in reality is a secret republican funded group which is dumping up to $1 Million in negative ads against Cait Conley in NY-17, according to several published reports and democrats.
- “Cait Conley is the one that [Mike Lawler] doesn’t want to see. Just today, a Republican backed Dark Money group put almost $1 million into an IE to go against her specifically,” said Morgan Hook, Blue Jacket Strategies, on Spectrum News.
- A Republican vying to keep his seat in a swing district is closer to losing it than the GOP would like to admit, according to a columnist.
- In a Friday article for The Contrarian, Jennifer Rubin wrote that Rep. Mike Lawler [..] appears “isolated, stressed (frequently hurrying down a hallway to avoid reporters), and dour.”
- Lawler, however, “conveys a near desperation to save himself from his own record of spinelessness, stuck justifying why his voting is indistinguishable from that of MAGA members from the Deep South,” Rubin wrote, summing him up as “a phony moderate.”
- Rubin asked readers to think of Lawler “as the Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) of the House — always concerned, but never courageous” because his voting record never took a hard stance against Trump when it mattered.
- “Had he cast hard ‘no’ votes against Trump when they mattered…he might have convinced voters he still had a moral pulse,” Rubin wrote. “But, given his track record, it is safe to assume that if voters reward him with another two years in Congress, he will keep bending the knee to Trump.”
- A super PAC calling itself “Progressive Champions PAC” is a Republican front group secretly working to influence a key New York Democratic primary, according to a new investigation by the newsletter Popular Information.
- The group has reportedly spent $1.5 million on ads attacking Democratic congressional candidate Cait Conley in New York’s 17th District.
- Popular Information, an independent investigative newsletter run by journalist Judd Legum, found that Progressive Champions PAC is part of a network of sham “progressive” PACs secretly working to influence Democratic primaries across the country on behalf of House Republican leadership.
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