WASHINGTON – Their dwindling majority in peril, House Democrats are entrusting their campaign operations to an analytical, openly gay moderate who’s been an attorney, businessman and five-time winner in his competitive congressional district.
New York Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, 54, takes over the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in January, following an unexpectedly dismal election that saw 12 of the party's incumbents defeated and another still trailing narrowly.
The party's House majority will be as meager as 222-213 next year, the tightest partisan gap in two decades. Maloney's primary job is to defy history in the 2022 elections and keep Democrats in control of the House.