Flipping the House and flipping off Trump: Democratic challenger Cait Conley defeats 2-term incumbent Republican Michael Lawler in New York 17th congressional district

Election results:  Ballotpedia, New York Times

Headline:  Independent, 11/5/2026

Joe Sommerlad reports:

Lawler, 40, lost his re-election bid to Democrat Cait Conley in the Big Apple’s 17th congressional district, covering the Hudson Valley, picking up 47.8 percent of the vote to her 52.1 percent. 

He subsequently told CNN reporter Manu Raju that he “ran as good a campaign as he possibly could” but that “the bottom fell out.”

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