"The worst part is that it was the local republicans that caused it."
The Republican Party in NYS is getting weaker and weaker on all fronts. There is no difference between them and the NYS Democrat Party.
They think they have to act like liberals in NYS, but they ran pro-abortion liberal Howard Mills against Schumer, and Howard Mills only received 24% of the vote.
Maybe the NYS GOP needs to energize the conservative base.
Someone from the NYS Right-to-Life Committee told me that a politician wanted to be endorsed by the NYS Right-to-Life Party (when it existed), but the NYS Republican Party in his area told him that if he did that, the Republican Party would not back him.
Ping!
I beleive it, I had their endorsement on 2001
Now they no longer exist as a Party I hear.