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Former Congresswoman Nan Hayworth won an initial skirmish against Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney on Tuesday by beating her successor in an Independence Party primary, giving her a third ballot line for their general election fight in November. Unofficial results showed the Republican about 80 votes ahead in the low-turnout contest, in which around 1,400 Independence Party voters went to the polls – around 6 percent of those enrolled in the 18th Congressional District, which includes all of Orange and Putnam counties and parts of Westchester and Dutchess. The state Board of Elections had Hayworth ahead, 729-649.

Chelsea Clinton will not run for Congress, her spokesman said, squelching a simmering rumor that the scion of the famous political family will follow in her parents’ footsteps and seek elected office. “This is 100 percent false. She’s not running for Congress in the 18th District or any other,” spokesman Matt McKenna told New York’s Daily News Wednesday. The New Rochelle, N.Y., blog “Talk of the Sound” wrote Tuesday that the young Clinton was considering a run to replace Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., in 2012. Clinton had been “approached by the right people” in the state Democratic Party to consider...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. Republicans will try to remove their own candidate from the ballot in a suburban New York congressional race because he wrote an article warning against racial mingling, a party official said Wednesday. Jim Russell, 56, a perennial GOP candidate known for his strong opposition to immigration, wrote in 2001 that parents should teach their children "an acceptance of appropriate ethnic boundaries for socialization and for marriage."