[Flashback NYT 10/22/24] Why New York’s Orthodox Jewish Voters Could Tip the Battle for the House

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-07 03:21:24 | Updated at 2024-11-07 05:51:30 2 hours ago

[Flashback NYT 10/22/24] Why New York’s Orthodox Jewish Voters Could Tip the Battle for the House
NY Times ^ | Oct 22 2024

Posted on 11/06/2024 7:15:06 PM PST by Words Matter

Representative Pat Ryan of New York is locked in one of the country’s toughest races. So it was especially noteworthy when the Democrat recently traveled hours outside his upstate district to visit an unusual set of influencers, Hasidic rabbis.

Then the next night, an embattled Republican in a nearby district, Representative Marc Molinaro, went out of his way to name check the Orthodox community on the debate stage.

And the following Sunday, Representative Mike Lawler, yet another Republican on the front lines, took advantage of a break in the Jewish high holidays to tour a kosher shopping center here in Monsey, trying on yarmulkes and posing for selfies.

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