Democrat Kathy Hochul has defeated Republican Jane Corwin in a western New York special election in a race that emerged as a political testing ground for the ambitious GOP blueprint to reform Medicare.
Fueled by a late wave of commercials blasting Corwin over her support for the controversial House Republican budget plan, Hochul surged in a race that few initially expected her to prevail in.
With 84 percent of precincts reporting, Hochul held a commanding 48 percent to 42 percent lead over Corwin. Tea party candidate Jack Davis received 8 percent.
Hochul’s against-the-odds win, national Democrats argued, proved the national unpopularity of the GOP proposal, given the district’s long history of supporting Republican candidates.
Republicans earlier in the day appeared to be bracing themselves for a loss in a race they were once seen as a lock to win. On Tuesday morning, National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Pete Sessions offered a decidedly downcast assessment of the race in a closed-door caucus meeting, and urged fellow Republicans to back on efforts to brand the race a referendum on Medicare.
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