New York voters in four competitive districts selected Republican nominees Tuesday night to take on Democratic incumbents as the GOP tries to hold on to its razor-thin House majority.  Due to several rounds of redistricting over the years, there are only a handful of competitive congressional districts in the state. Two of them are on […]

Micah Lasher won the competitive Democratic primary to replace retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), holding off Assemblyman Alex Bores in New York‘s 12th Congressional District. Lasher led with 39% of the vote to Bores’s 35% with 85% of the vote counted, according to the Associated Press. He prevailed over a crowded field that also featured […]

Democrat Cait Conley won the right to challenge Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) on Tuesday night, winning a crowded House primary in New York’s 17th Congressional District. Conley, an Army veteran, received 51.5% of the vote when the race was called at 9:44 p.m. She was competing against a field of four other candidates, but her […]

Maryland state Del. Adrian Boafo emerged as the winner in the crowded Democratic primary to replace retiring Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) on Tuesday night in Maryland’s 5th Congressional District. The Democratic primary race for the deep-blue seat east of Washington, D.C., saw $12.5 million spent by outside groups, making it one of the most expensive […]