Sean Patrick Maloney, the architect of the Democratic midterm campaign, had one of the best nights in America on Tuesday as he kept his team focused and in the fight for the House majority.
Sean Patrick Maloney, the five-term incumbent from New York’s Hudson Valley, suffered one of the worst political defeats in America on Tuesday, ending, for now, an ambitious career that once seemed headed for statewide office or high-ranking posts in Congress.
“I don’t like to lose, but my opponent won this race. He won it fair and square, and that means something. So I’m going to step aside, and I had a good run,” Maloney, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said Wednesday morning at the group’s new outpost in the Navy Yard neighborhood of D.C.