She is a very bright woman who knows public policy backwards and forwards and who has reached out to a diverse constituency, especially upstate. I'm very impressed.

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She has established a beachhead where she was originally viewed as a carpetbagger and is now considered an almost homegrown New Yorker.

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Unfortunately, Mike Long has controlled the agenda. Unfortunately, Republicans in the state of New York don't have the luxury of picking their own candidates on their own terms. That's a big reason why the Republican Party is toothless.

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