Party members had a bizarre conversation with their own candidate for New York’s 17th District.
Members of the New York Working Families Party finally got to confront their own congressional candidate in a hotly contested Hudson Valley district where the election could be determined by the smallest of margins.in June, is a Republican plant meant to take votes away from Democrat Mondaire Jones and tip the race for incumbent GOP Rep. Mike Lawler. Frascone has not campaigned, does not have a website and is not fundraising.
The Working Families Party is now caught in the awkward position of campaigning against its own candidate. The third party often supports Democratic candidates and lets them collect votes on the WFP line — but in New York’s 17th Congressional District, the party is urging supporters to vote for Jones on the Democratic line.
Frascone tried to cut the conversation short, but a visibly annoyed Archila said the group wanted to have a real conversation with him. “The role you are playing is to spoil the election in one of the tightest districts in the country, so we want to understand what your intentions really are.”
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