Rep. Mike Lawler reportedly says even Christ himself could not have held his suburban swing NY-17 district for Republicans in the face of the massive midterms blue wave.
“Jesus Christ could have run and would have lost.” Lawler told CNN, according to reporter Manu Raju.
With voters overwhelmingly turning against President Trump and his GOP allies, Lawler believes he was always doomed to lose his reelection bid to Democratic challenger Cait Conley.
Lawler, a two-term incumbent, said he was happy about the campaign he ran against Democratic challenger Cait Conley, but “the bottom dropped out” of his support amid widespread dissatisfaction with Trump’s unpopular policies.
His campaign spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.
Although many districts remained uncalled, Democrats were projected to win about 250 seats in the House of Representatives, a massive landslide pickup of about 40 seats or more, including Lawler’s NY-17 district in the northern NYC suburbs.
Lawler was one of several suburban Republicans to be swept from office, including Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-New Jersey) and Rep. Fitzpatrick (R-Pennsylvania), who lost his suburban Philadelphia distric...