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Following a sudden resignation, congressional district redraw and a previous attempt to win the seat, Max Della Pia will have the chance to run for congress in N.Y.-23 with the Democratic Party’s support in a summer special election.
Rep. Tom Reed, representative of NY-23, is no longer running for reelection or governor after being accused of sexual misconduct.
Reed won 57.7 percent of the vote to Mitrano’s 41.1 percent. The 16-point blowout comes two years after Reed beat Mitrano by eight and a half points in the 2018 midterms.
On Friday, Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 formally conceded to Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) in the race for Congress in New York’s 23rd District.
Rep. Tom Reed is facing a second challenge from Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95. Leslie Danks Burke is challenging State Sen. Tom O’Mara. Follow this page for live Election Day updates from Tompkins County and beyond.
Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) declared victory in his reelection campaign for New York’s 23rd Congressional District at a small election night gathering in Corning around 11 p.m. Tuesday night. A delay in results caused by a high volume of mail-in ballots, however, means Reed and Democratic challenger Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 won’t know for several days the official and final results of their second head-to-head race.
Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) held a free speech rally before marching to City Hall to raise an American flag with Mayor Svante Myrick ’09, who rebuffed the invitation.
The race for New York’s 23rd Congressional District turned to mudslinging last week as incumbent Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) accused his opponent, Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95, of running an “anti-police campaign,” despite Mitrano’s multiple assertions that she is a supporter of law enforcement and against defunding the police. This is the second election where Mitrano and Reed are facing off for the western New York congressional seat. The change in tone comes as protests against police violence and, this weekend, protests in support of police, sweep Ithaca. The accusation came after revelations that an organizer with the Mitrano campaign posted the following on Instagram: “Fuck Tom Reed, fuck cops, fuck capitalism, fuck Trump.” Reed campaign communications director Abbey Daugherty called the comments “hateful and offensive” and claimed them as proof that “what truly motivates Mitrano [is] … a hatred of our law enforcement community and our capitalist system.”
Mitrano said that she only met the organizer once and that “the statements made in the post do not in any way represent me or my values,” in an Oct.
The affront on Reed’s doorstep comes after he held a Thursday press conference to clean up graffiti left at the Tompkins County GOP headquarters from the Oct.16 demonstrations that were marked by physical altercations and burning Trump signs.
Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) held an event to clean up the Republican building, which had been marked with graffiti by counterprotesters.