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It was a good night for Democrats, but for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman, Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, the DCCC lost its most important race: his own.
Maloney, the New York Democrat charged with leading the House Democrats’ re-election efforts, lost his seat in an upset on Tuesday night. He called his Republican opponent, Mike Lawler, Wednesday morning to concede.
Maloney is the first sitting chairman of the DCCC to lose reelection in more than 40 years. He now joins the ranks of former Rep. Jim Corman of California, who lost in 1980 as former President Ronald Reagan swept the nation.