21st Congressional District race - A rematch of 2018

21st Congressional District race - A rematch of 2018

Incumbent Rep.

Elise Stefanik once again is taking on Democrat Tedra Cobb in the race for the 21st Congressional District seat.

Candidates in the race for the 22nd congressional district seatwhicr viewing area.

But the 21st congressional district which is also huge covering 12 counties....covers all oflewis f herkimer county in the north country.

Tonight, news channel two's gary liberatore has more on this year's race.

Gary, good evening.

Jason...just like the 22nd congressional dirict ra, the st congressiol district race is also rematch ft republican elise stefanik of schuylerville in saratoga counnty is being challenged for the second straight time by democrat tedra cobb...of canton in st.

Lawrence county.

In 2018...setfanik won....by about 32 thousand votes .... 132,000 to 100,000.

We caught up with the incumbent elise stefanik on sunday at the herkimer county republican committee chicken barbecue fundraiser at the herkimer v-f-w.

Setfanik says campaigning for her...this year during covid...isn't much different than in her past three campaigns in 2014, 2016 and 2018.

Meanwhile cobb says she is ((not(( going door to door this year like she did in 2018...because she says it's potentially unsafe for certain people who come to the door.

Tc : 59:50 "we have been going dr tdoor so the norcountry s hae state and in the entire country since the start of this crisis."

Tc : 00:05 "we are safely going door-to-door we are delivering signs and people are appreciative.

While were at the doors we can also hear from the constituents what they need and weve been able to help out a lot of families."

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None tc : 03:52 "we ve really putpublic hd my bacround is in hlthcareso wed voters where ty are and wilturns come up with, we've made almost 3,000,000 calls.

We usin, obviously tv and digital media so we're really communicating with voters directly and keeping them safe."

Some in the republican party are calling tedra cobb...taxing tedra.

Stefanik agrees with that...and tonight at six...you'll hear what tedra cobb has to say about it.

Reporting live in the studio, gary liberatore, news channel two...jason.... today, the utica