Meet the Candidates for NY-17: Mike Lawler
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:15.2 | Today we're interviewing the Democratic and Republican candidates in an important swing congressional district, New York 17. |
| 0:22.4 | The incumbent is Republican Mike Lawler, who will talk to now. |
| 0:26.7 | The Democrat is former Congressman Mondare Jones, who will be on later this hour. |
| 0:31.5 | As they compete in the district, that geographically is on either side of the Tappan Z, Mario Cuomo Bridge, Rockland County on one side, |
| 0:39.7 | tarry town and points north to Putnam and part of Duchess County on the other. |
| 0:45.4 | Mike Lawler is a freshman elected in 2022 over Democrat Sean Patrick Maloney when Republicans |
| 0:51.3 | flipped a handful of districts in the New York City suburbs. A friendly court |
| 0:55.6 | ordered redistricting helped, but issues matter too, just like all over Long Island and the Hudson Valley. |
| 1:02.1 | The New York suburbs were one of the only areas, remember, of the country to experience a meaningful |
| 1:07.5 | Republican wave that had been predicted to be much more widespread in Joe Biden's |
| 1:12.5 | midterm congressional election. Now the district has been redrawn again, which might help the Democrat |
| 1:19.1 | Jones this time, but it's still expected to be a very close race, and it might be crucial to |
| 1:24.3 | decide and control of Congress. There's also a weird third-party factor in this |
| 1:29.9 | race, if you haven't heard about this yet. The Working Families Party has fielded its own |
| 1:35.1 | candidate who beat Mondair Jones in that party's primary, but this is not the third-party challenge |
| 1:41.0 | from the left that you would normally think of when the working |
| 1:44.6 | party's family goes out on its own. The candidate is widely believed to be a Republican plant |
| 1:49.6 | just trying to take votes away from Mondair Jones. In fact, the Working Families Party itself |
| 1:55.3 | officially believes that and is urging voters not to vote for their candidate. How weird is that? So with that as some |
| 2:03.0 | political and historical context, Congressman Mike Lawler joins us first. Congressman, thanks for |
| 2:08.5 | doing this. Welcome back to WNYC. Thanks for having me, Brian. Why do you think you won in 2022, |
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