That is wishful thinking on the Rats part. There is a commission of elected GOP and the Rat Gov that are going to decide the matter. As far as anything I have heard from the GOP side, they want to keep the seat. I think that there will be one Rat seat and one GOP seat lost. The GOP has other loser seats to get rid of other then that one.
That would work for me. This district is, at its heart, fairly conservative (at least by NY standards), and deserves after the past few decades to be represented by someone who is ‘one of them.’