Republicans thought they had midterms in the bag. Voters just rejected them again | Lloyd Green

Tuesday's special election in New York state was more evidence that voters are furious about Republican attacks on abortion rights - and going to the polls to boost Democrats

Abortion and Donald Trump will both appear on November's ballot. On Tuesday, Pat Ryan, a Democrat and a decorated Iraq war veteran, upset Republican Marc Molinaro in a special congressional election in New York's Upper Hudson Valley. Ryan won 52-48 after pre-election polls had painted him as the clear underdog.

This is a huge victory for Dems in a bellwether, Biden +1.5 district," according to Dave Wasserman, the doyen of congressional-race watchers, with the key words being huge" and bellwether". Said differently, Republican efforts to convert the contest into a referendum on the Democrats and inflation failed.

Lloyd Green served in the Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992