House Democrats' campaign arm to air ads to help a powerful but vulnerable member: Their own chairman
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is spending $605,000 on an ad buy in New York's 17th District, where the committee's chairman Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney is locked in a tight race that has the attention and funding of national Republicans. News of the ad buy was shared first with CBS News.
Maloney currently represents New York's 18th District, but after redistricting, Maloney decided to switch over and move to the slightly more Democratic 17th District in the Hudson Valley. He was elected chairman of the DCCC in December 2020, after pitching himself as a Democrat who understood how to win tough seats.
The DCCC ad, which starts to air on Tuesday, labels Maloney's Republican opponent, New York state Assemblyman Mike Lawler, as a "MAGA extremist" and ties him to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
