Five-term Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-N.Y.) is seeking reelection in his Aug. 23 Democratic primary by touting his record as a moderate dealmaker who can win competitive elections in a swing Hudson Valley congressional district won by former President Donald Trump in 2016.
Maloney, a self-described “gay guy with an interracial family,” has represented New York’s purple Congressional District 18 (CD 18) for a decade.
But he’s not running for a sixth term in CD 18, rated by FiveThirtyEight as a “toss-up” district in November’s elections.
Instead, Maloney is campaigning for the party’s primary nod in neighboring CD 17, a Democrat-leaning district spanning parts of Rockland, Dutchess, and Putnam counties where he lives in Cold Spring….