Stefanik cruises to a win, as Doheny blames Rove
Jimmy Vielkind
GLENS FALLS—Elise Stefanik cruised to a Republican primary win in the state's 21st Congressional District, besting Matt Doheny in a race to replace retiring Democratic Rep. Bill Owens.
The mood was jubilant among Stefanik's supporters, who watched her notch wins in each of the district's 12 counties. With 84 percent of precincts reporting, Stefanik led Doheny by slightly better than 20 points. She now faces Democrat Aaron Woolf, a documentary filmmaker, and Matt Funicello, a bakery owner who is the candidate of the Green Party, in the general election.
“Washington is in desperate need of new ideas and a new generation of leadership,” she told a cheering crowd.
In picking Stefanik, voters rejected Doheny, an investor from Watertown who lost races for Congress in 2010 and 2012. He was a late entrant into this year's contest, and announced his intention to run only after incumbent Rep. Bill Owens said he wouldn't seek another term. Stefanik had wrapped up the support of the Republican county organizations in the district, and they mostly stayed with her even as Doheny won the endorsements of elected leaders like Sen. Patty Ritchie and Warren County Sheriff Bud York.
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