Fox News: Inside the Republican victories in suburban New York: 'fed up with one party Democratic rule'

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Inside the Republican victories in suburban New York: 'fed up with one party Democratic rule'

New York Republicans explain that their significant successes in the state were spurred on by New Yorkers' concerns over inflation, the cost of living, crime and the migrant crisis.......                    ...                        ...Rep. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican who You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, explained his success to Fox News on Thursday, saying that "voters in New York are fed up with one party Democratic rule."......Two days after the election, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login, and control of the lower chamber of Congress remains undetermined. If Republicans can eke out a majority, the party will have a unified federal government until at least 2026.......Lawler won his race with 52.4 percent of the vote, defeating his Democratic challenger, former Rep. Mondaire Jones, by 6.8 points.......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Lawler's district, New York Congressional District 17, is just north of New York City and is primarily suburban and middle-class. Politically, the district is fairly split between party lines, making it a highly targeted district for both sides. Democrats poured in millions in hopes of flipping the seat blue.......The race ended up being one of the most expensive House races in the country.......Republicans also You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login 1, 11 and 12, all of which are suburban areas near New York City.......Lawler said that, ultimately, New Yorkers' concerns over inflation, the cost of living and crime pushed him to victory......."In a state like New York where Democrats control everything and they have created an affordability crisis, a crime crisis, the migrant crisis exploding, billions of dollars of taxpayer money, voters had had enough," he said. "Voters want us to focus on the issues that impact them most acutely and that is the economy, that is the border, that is the international crises that we're seeing, energy policy."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login......Lawler homed in on the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login as especially important to his constituents......."What [President] Joe Biden and [Vice President] Kamala Harris allowed over the last three and a half plus years, 10.5 million migrants coming into the United States, it's unfathomable," he said. "It's created a crisis in states like New York, where they're You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login."......David Laska, spokesperson for the New York state Republican Party, told Fox News Digital that the victories in his state were spurred on by President-elect Trump's clear messaging to voters on issues that they care about.......In the presidential race, Vice President Kamala Harris won New York. However, she earned nearly 6 percent less of the vote share than Biden did in 2020......."Kamala Harris tried to run on vibes. What does that even mean? What a joke," he said. "President Trump ran on inflation, immigration, those were the issues that mattered to Americans. And you saw Republican victories up and down the ballot."......You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login ......Laska believes Tuesday's election is indicative of a broader political realignment of working-class voters who no longer believe the Democratic Party cares about their needs. Put simply, he said that people just wanted change......."Look, New York is a blue state, but it's not progressive blue. It's not woke blue. It's blue-collar blue. It's working-class blue. These are the old 'Reagan Democrats,' as we used to call them. And you might be calling a lot of them 'Trump Democrats,'" he said. "When you look back on this chapter of history, because voters of all stripes had economic concerns, had concerns about immigration, and again, President Trump spoke to those. Kamala Harris did not."...

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