What a vicious bwitch.
She’s not wrong in this case. Lawler bleating about any chance for “fair maps” in New York is the one being hilarious here.
Numerous people have hypothesized — and they are surely correct — that Lee Zeldin’s strong showing (or Hochul’s weakness, if you prefer) helped Republicans to several fluke wins in Democrat districts.
Santos, D’Esposito, Lawler, Molinaro & Williams all won very close elections in 2022 and the GOP only lost 1 close House election (CD-18) in New York; going 5 for 6 in tossups is hardly a normal situation for Republicans, much less new York Republicans.
Santos of course is already out, and his district has been gerrymandered to make sure it stays in Democrat hands. Williams was also the victim of “harsh” gerrymandering and is probably as good as gone in November. RINO coward D’Esposito is also facing the same fate in CD-4, even without gerrymandering.
It’s going to take another major anomaly/fluke/upset for these squishes to win again in November.
Trump doing better than expected in NY would be an anomaly though he’ll never come close to what Zeldin got in ‘22. But seeing as how Lawler, Williams, D’Esposito & Molinaro are all Trump-hating RINOs to one extent or another, Trump’s success (if he has any) in New York may not help them much.
I hope Mr. Lawler said, “Thank you, Representative Pelosi. Your district is Sh!thol!a, California, right?”