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Democrats goal NY Rep. Mike Lawler, NJ Rep. Tom Kean in midterms
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Democrats goal NY Rep. Mike Lawler, NJ Rep. Tom Kean in midterms

Last updated: April 8, 2025 5:10 pm
Editorial Board Published April 8, 2025
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Democrats Tuesday slapped marketing campaign bullseyes on Westchester County Republican Rep. Mike Lawler and New Jersey’s Rep. Tom Kean Jr. as they hope to retake the Home of Representatives within the midterm elections.

The Democratic Congressional Marketing campaign Committee (DCCC) included the suburban swing-seat lawmakers on its record of 35 GOP-held seats that Staff Blue hopes to flip in 2026.

With Republicans holding solely a slender majority within the Home, Democrats seemingly solely must flip three seats to retake management of the decrease chamber of Congress, underlining the significance of swing districts like those held by Lawler and Kean.

Lawler, a second-term lawmaker, is considered one of three Republicans who received in congressional districts President Trump misplaced in 2024.

Lawler has hinted he could go away the seat to run for governor towards Democratic Gov. Hochul, which might pressure Republicans to scramble to discover a new candidate to defend his NY-17 district. That might make it an excellent juicier goal for Democrats.

Rockland County legislator Beth Davidson, Military veteran Cait Conley and anti-poverty activist Jessica Reinmann are eyeing Democratic challenges to Lawler. Ex-Rep. Mondaire Jones, who represented the district for a single time period earlier than Lawler and misplaced to the Republican in 2024, has stated he received’t run once more subsequent yr.

Kean, the son of fashionable former Republican Gov. Tom Kean, can be serving his second time period after he turned away a powerful Democratic problem in his prosperous Bergen County-based NJ-07 district final yr.

If Democrats win the Home, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn could be in line to be the primary Black Home Speaker.

Lawler and Kean’s districts are typical of the well-educated and prosperous suburban turf that could be a key electoral battleground nationwide.

At the same time as they play offense towards Lawler and Kean, Democrats admit they should work laborious to defend two Lengthy Island seats received final yr by Rep. Tom Suozzi and Rep. Laura Gillen.

Republicans can breath a bit simpler that Democrats left New York-area GOP lawmakers Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of Staten Island and Lengthy Island Rep. Nick LaLota off the goal record.

Each of them received simpler than anticipated victories in 2024, suggesting ousting them could be a longshot in 2026.

Republicans maintain 220 seats whereas Democrats have 213, however voters in two deep-blue districts are prone to elect Democrats to fill vacancies left by lawmakers who just lately died in workplace. That places the GOP edge at 5 votes, that means the magic quantity for Democrats must be three.

Democrats are additionally focusing on 4 Republican-held seats in battleground Pennsylvania, the place the GOP gained floor in 2024, in addition to three seats every in Arizona, California, Michigan and Ohio.

Democratic optimism is turbocharged as a result of the sitting president’s get together sometimes loses Home seats in midterm elections, significantly when they’re of their second time period like Trump.

“They have a microscopic majority right now,” Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Oregon), the DCCC chair, stated Tuesday.

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