Politics
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Mike Lawler backs Trump’s tariffs as his district faces an affordability crisis
A Washington Post analysis found the widest affordability gap of any battleground in Lawler’s Hudson Valley district, where families now face tariff- and war-driven price increases he has voted to sustain.
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John Oliver mocks upstate Republican’s ‘salute’ to his Nazi soldier grandfather
National Republicans abandoned state Sen. Peter Oberacker in September over a Facebook tribute to his grandfather, who fought for Nazi Germany, and he now enters the final week with about $23,000 in the bank.
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Once a data center booster, Mike Lawler now backs local moratoriums
The Hudson Valley Republican now champions hometown moratoriums, though his record includes promoting Rockland as a data center magnet and backing federal measures that would have curtailed states’ power to regulate the industry.
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Jeanine Driscoll downplays gas prices as Long Islanders pay 44% more
The Republican challenging Rep. Laura Gillen told Newsmax that gas prices barely come up on the campaign trail, even as Long Island drivers pay $1.32 more per gallon than they did a year ago.
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Did Bruce Blakeman check the news before attacking Hochul on firefighters?
Gov. Kathy Hochul had signed a bipartisan bill quadrupling the tax credit for volunteer firefighters two days before Blakeman accused her of failing to act on it—at a fire station in his own Nassau County.
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Ontario County rejects Trump’s push to rename Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’
The Ontario County supervisors join the Rochester City Council and the Wayne County Board of Supervisors in formally rejecting the “Lake America” name.
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Mike LiPetri’s ‘pro-choice Republican’ pitch collides with his Assembly record
The Republican challenging Rep. Tom Suozzi now calls himself pro-choice, yet in 2019 he voted against New York’s law codifying Roe v. Wade, and called it “radical and horrific.”
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NY-17 voters say Mike Lawler’s Planned Parenthood vote hits home
Rep. Mike Lawler says he opposes a national abortion ban, but Hudson Valley voters who rely on Planned Parenthood say his 2025 vote to defund the provider tells them more.
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5 takeaways from New York’s only governor’s debate
With early voting less than two weeks away, Hochul kept the spotlight trained on Trump, while her Republican challenger struggled to make Zohran Mamdani the centerpiece of the night.
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ICE agent shoots man in Marble Hill with a 5-year-old in back seat
The shooting, the first by an ICE agent in New York City in six years, drew swift condemnation from Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul and ignited protests that stretched late into the night.
