Democrat Tim Kennedy won the New York special election to replace Brian Higgins on Tuesday.
Kennedy defeated Republican Gary Dickson, a West Seneca supervisor who is an Army and FBI veteran, on Tuesday night. Kennedy has been a member of the New York state Senate since January 2011 and has said he considered Higgins a mentor.of protecting Social Security and Medicare, as well as reproductive rights, in a “solid Democratic” seat ranked D+10 by. Despite the similar last names, he is not related to former President John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy held a significant advantage regarding fundraising and exposure in the special election. As a state official, he relied on name recognition, boosted by TV ads circulating throughout the blue district. Kennedy also spent years becoming one of the top New York political fundraisers, raising $745,000 in the first six weeks after entering the special election race in November.The newly elected congressman will now finish out Higgins’s term in the 118th Congress through Jan.
The election for the full term for New York’s 26th District is June 25. Former Democratic congressional candidate Nate McMurray, who ran for the House on two occasions in the past 10 years, will challenge Kennedy for the full-term primary election.Kennedy filed a lawsuit ahead of the special election, claiming that the signatures McMurray gathered to fulfill the petition requirement to be on the June ballot were fraudulent.
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