BATAVIA, N.Y. -- Last time around, Nate McMurray seemed to have everything going his way.The man he was trying to unseat, Rep. Chris Collins, was hit with federal insider trading charges three months before the 2018 general election. Collins, a Republican, temporarily suspended his campaign; even when
The man he was trying to unseat, Rep. Chris Collins, was hit with federal insider trading charges three months before the 2018 general election. Collins, a Republican, temporarily suspended his campaign; even when he resumed, he raised little money and made few public appearances in the district in western New York.
McMurray is back to try again — and will face state Sen. Chris Jacobs, the Republican candidate, in a race that is potentially a harbinger of the electoral mood before November’s presidential election. Story continues“A win would be a punch in the eye to Trumpism,” said McMurray. “A close loss would be the same.”
Jacobs, a scion of a wealthy Buffalo family, earned the Republican nomination in late January after being endorsed by eight county chairs in the district, an anvil-shaped chunk of suburban and rural towns between Buffalo and Rochester. McMurray also plans to run in November on the Democratic line, setting up an almost inevitable sequel to the current campaign, regardless of who wins on Tuesday.
Like campaigns nationwide, the race in the 27th has been complicated by the coronavirus outbreak and intensified by the civil unrest that erupted following the George Floyd killing on Memorial Day. McMurray, 45, does support many of the policies embraced by the progressive wing of the Democratic Party but said his logic for doing so is less about hewing a liberal line and more about practical concerns.
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