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Roughly four months after the November midterms, Election Day 2024 is still pretty far off. But one Republican political hopeful is already brandishing her big guns and taking aim at the congressman in Texas’ 23rd District. On Thursday, small business owner and “accomplished health industry leader” Julie Clark announced in a press release the unveiling of what her campaign is calling the district's first TV ad of next year’s election cycle. Clark is gearing up to duke it out with U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, whom she accuses of just not being conservative enough. The ad is set to air over...

In your typical midterm election with an unpopular Democratic president, you’d expect Republicans to be flying high. But the evidence is mounting that the national political environment right now actually leans toward Democrats. On Tuesday, Democrat Pat Ryan defeated Republican Marc Molinaro in a special election for New York’s swingy 19th Congressional District by 2 percentage points, 51 percent to 49 percent.1 At the same time, Republican Joe Sempolinski defeated Democrat Max Della Pia by a closer-than-expected margin of 7 points in the special election for New York’s solid-red 23rd District. On their own, these elections could be dismissed as...

Voters were awaiting late returns Tuesday night to determine whether Nicholas A. Langworthy or Carl P. Paladino emerges as the Republican candidate and the November favorite in the reconfigured 23rd Congressional District. Early totals could not point to a definitive winner in the district that spans seven counties, leading both campaigns to wait far beyond the 9 p.m. close of polls to identify the Republican nominee to face Democrat Max Della Pia – a retired Air Force officer – in the Nov. 8 general election. And because turnout for a rare August primary election was deemed light across the seven-county...

Republican Congressman Chris Jacobs, who represents New York’s 27th district and announced his candidacy for New York’s 23rd district in May 2022, announced Friday he will no longer be running for the new district. Jacobs recently spoke out against the sale of AR-15s following the white supremacist mass shooting at the Jefferson Avenue Tops Markets location in Buffalo. Conservatives seek primary challenger after Jacobs’ gun reform comments Tompkins County legislator MIke Sigler announced Tuesday he would be challenging Jacobs for NY-23 in the primary. News 4 also confirmed Ellicott Development Co. chair and former candidate for governor Carl Paladino plans...

ALBANY, N.Y. — Rep. Chris Jacobs has announced he will not seek another term in Congress, after the Republican faced rising backlash from the right following his announcement last week that he would support new gun control measures. “It would be an incredibly divisive election for both the Republican Party and the people of the 23rd District,” Jacobs said Friday afternoon at a press conference in Buffalo. “The last thing we need is an incredibly negative half-truth filled media attack funded by millions of dollars of special interest money coming into our community around this issue of guns and gun...

Full title:Newt Gingrich: Blue wave of liberal cash from California and New York flooding Georgia governor's race Republican Brian Kemp is running against Democrat Stacey Abrams in the race for governor of Georgia. (Campaign photos) You’ve probably heard a lot about the supposed blue wave the political elite are predicting for the election cycle. I’m confident Republicans will keep control of the House and the Senate, but a different kind of blue wave is currently washing across several states. It’s a blue wave of liberal funding. A massive flow of money from liberal donors in California and New York is...

Texas Rep. Will Hurd’s Urdu is better than his Spanish, even though the latter is the preferred language of many constituents in his sprawling, two-thirds Hispanic district. The 37-year-old worked for the CIA for almost a decade, much of it undercover in Pakistan, where he mastered the national tongue. “When I had a long beard and wore local clothes, my Urdu was good enough to get the local discount at the bazaar,” Hurd said. Yet, he’s comfortable being a political outlier: Texas’ first black Republican elected to Congress since Reconstruction and only one of two black GOP House members along...

Why would a Republican Congressional candidate after dropping out of her Congressional race endorse the Democrat remaining in the race over the Republican remaining in the race? (see story) Just as Republicans suspected Dede Scozzafava was just another Democrat RINO mole attempting to burrow her way into the National Republican Party to undermine it from within. Could it be that her decision to endorse the Democrat in the race for the 23rd Congressional District in New York is an indication of what type of Republican she is and what kind of Congressional representative she would have been? I think yes!...

Like a sneeze she has come and gone. Congressional Republican Candidate for New York’s 23rd District Dede Scozzafava has quit. Now for the good health of the Republican Party, Republicans most move forward from the impure Party corrupting politics of the past of which Newt Gingrich advocates and which handpicked GOP Candidate Dede Scozzafava represents. Scozzafava represented the corrupt politics which are now embraced by both Democrat and Republican Party Officials. Scozzafava is a sometimes Conservative, sometimes Liberal. (see story) This type of old type politics, often referred to as big tent politics has manufacture the dread hybrid and politically...