{"id":583237,"date":"2026-02-11T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/583237\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:38:12","slug":"ny-conservative-party-endorses-smullen-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/583237\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Conservative Party endorses Smullen for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a class=\"noslideshow fancybox\" data-fancybox=\"\" title=\"Photo: Robert Smullen for Congress\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot_2026-02-04_144042.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot_2026-02-04_144042.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Robert Smullen for Congress<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fullscreen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/53002\/20260211\/ny-conservative-party-endorses-smullen-for-congress\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feb 11, 2026 \u2014 <\/p>\n<p>The New York State Conservative Party is endorsing Robert Smullen for Congress in the state&#8217;s 21st Congressional District, which includes most of the North Country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpnys.org\/2026\/02\/10\/statement-from-nys-conservative-party-on-ny-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">In a press release,<\/a> the party said that Smullen has met with the majority of county party leaders in NY-21 and that he will be the district&#8217;s Conservative Party nominee. The party said that Smullen is committed to President Trump\u2019s domestic and international agenda, as well as his immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Locally, Bob Smullen will continue the work of retiring Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, a fierce advocate for her district, who we proudly endorsed in every election she entered,&#8221; said the Conservative Party&#8217;s press release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/52794\/20251222\/in-the-end-stefanik-couldn-t-get-trump-s-blessing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> In December,<\/a> Stefanik dropped out of the New York governor&#8217;s race and announced that she&#8217;s not running for reelection in NY 21.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/52667\/20251120\/republican-robert-smullen-announces-congressional-campaign-for-ny21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Smullen served<\/a> in the US Marine Corps for 24 years. He was elected as an Assemblyman in 2018 and represents all of Hamilton County as well as parts of Herkimer, Fulton, Montgomery, Oneida and Otsego counties.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/52969\/20260206\/north-country-primaries-are-heating-up-the-ny-deadline-to-change-political-party-is-feb-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anthony Constantino, the CEO of Sticker Mule, is challenging Smullen<\/a> for the Republican nomination in the upcoming June primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Robert Smullen for Congress Feb 11, 2026 \u2014 The New York State Conservative Party is endorsing Robert&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":583238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,327,8988,454,405,403,5226,5225,5228,191047,5227,80,252854,252853,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-583237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-congress","10":"tag-election","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-ny-21","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-robert-smullen","21":"tag-the-north-country","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116054399741414664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}