Zeldin campaign helped flip House seats in New York

 Breitbart:

Despite Lee Zeldin’s bid to unseat incumbent New York Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul being unsuccessful, the Republican’s candidacy created significant inroads for other GOP candidates across the Empire State, and could turn out to be the unsung savior of the House majority.

Zeldin, who conceded to Hochul on Wednesday after running one of the closest gubernatorial races in New York in 20 years, acknowledged his success in helping other Republicans win in the Empire State — which amounted to 11 House seats for the GOP, including flipping the one held by Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) Chair Rep. Sean Maloney (D-NY).

The Republican gubernatorial nominee also said on Twitter that Republicans were able to flip four congressional districts in the Empire State, breaking the Democrat supermajority in the state Senate and receiving the most votes of any GOP nominee in the state since Nelson Rockefeller. He declared, “Team Zeldin put in the max effort every day and has no regrets. It was such an honor to lead this year’s ticket.”
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As Republicans won eleven of the U.S. House races in New York — including four on Long Island — one of the most significant upsets to the House Democrats was when Republican Mike Lawler defeated their party’s top campaign chief, Rep. Maloney, in New York’s Seventeenth Congressional District, even after one of the main Democrat super PACs threw over half a million dollars behind the congressman in a last-ditch attempt to save him.

The New York Republican chairman Nick Langworthy, who won in his Republican-held Twenty-third Congressional District on Tuesday, labeled Zeldin reenergizing the party as a “herculean effort” and noted, “Lee built a coalition of voters, the likes of which we have not seen in a generation, who want safe streets, economic freedom, and a voice in their kids’ education.”
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New York needed this new blood.  The state has been in decline under Democrat leadership and is also losing population. 

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