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Victoria Bekiempis in Nyack, New York

How a five-term New York Democrat lost a House seat to a Republican

Sean Patrick Maloney departs following a news conference announcing his concession to Mike Lawler in Washington.
Sean Patrick Maloney departs following a news conference announcing his concession to Mike Lawler in Washington. Photograph: Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images

Jack Dunnigan stood behind the counter of Pickwick Bookshop, a venerable store he owns, with its homey smell of nobly ageing paper, in the picturesque, liberal riverside town of Nyack about 30 miles north of downtown New York City, and sighed.

“I had a feeling he was going to,” Dunnigan said of the local Democratic congressman and national party stalwart Sean Maloney’s loss to his Republican challenger, Mike Lawler, in the midterm elections.

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