[1Old Pro]

Fact: Under the lines used on Tuesday (the same ones used going back to 2012) it was rated as R+3. So it actually favors REPUBLICANS slightly. Trump actually won -- by nearly 7 points -- this allegedly "Democrat district" in 2016 and only narrowly lost it in 2020.

True, this was a GOP LOSS, plain and simple. I think McCarthy has been "quiet quitting" here. This seat should have been won, period.

[PermaRag]

I realize this IS New York after all, but is a squishy GOPe Chamber of Commerce anti-conservative like Molinaro really the best we can do in the Hudson Valley? This ain’t the Bronx.

Results from Tuesday say: no.

Results from November, when Molinaro will be running again in a different (but similar) district will likely say the same thing. These two districts — 18th and 19th — are marginal and that means winnable. It would help to have a better candidate, but for 2022 we are stuck with this schmuck.