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YIKES! John Lemondes FUMBLES Campaign Launch, Quickly Exposes His Extremism to Voters

From calling Medicaid and SNAP cuts “great” to admitting he doesn’t “know enough” about CHIPS, Lemondes is quickly proving he’s unfit for NY-22

 
Far-right extremist John Lemondes is off to such a rough start, experts are already calling his campaign an “uphill battle.”

In two new interviews this week, Lemondes proved just how unprepared and out of touch he is with workers and families in Central New York and the Mohawk Valley:

  • Lemondes praised massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP as “great” and “necessary,” admitting he would have voted for the Big, Ugly Law that’s ripping health care and food access from Central New Yorkers and jacking up their health care costs.
  • Lemondes said he would repeal the CHIPS and Science Act that’s bringing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of jobs to the district “if it makes sense,” admitting, “I don’t know enough about that particular act.”
  • Lemondes doubled down on supporting pardons for January 6th insurrectionists who “stomped on the heads of police officers” and “assault[ed] officers with a pepper spray and a chair,” saying “I don’t know all of the circumstances.”
  • Lemondes blatantly admitted that he opposes abortion rights and even “declined to say how he would vote if Republicans in Congress try to pass a bill that would ban abortion nationwide.”
It begs the question: Does Lemondes know anything about NY-22 voters? 

DCCC Spokesperson Riya Vashi:
“John Lemondes is a MAGA extremist who will rubber-stamp Donald Trump’s agenda at every turn — already backing his Big, Ugly Bill expected to rip away health care from over 35,000 New Yorkers in the 22nd District and jeopardize food assistance for 48,000. He’s an election denier who has defended Trump’s pardon of violent January 6th rioters, repeatedly voted to restrict reproductive freedoms, and couldn’t even say whether he would have supported the CHIPS Act — the very law that delivered billions in investments and tens of thousands of good-paying jobs to Central New York. Lemondes is completely out of step with Central New York — and voters will reject him just like they did the last time he tried to run for Congress.”

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