{"id":910135,"date":"2026-07-03T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/910135\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:10:15","slug":"smullen-drops-out-of-ny-21-congressional-race-after-meeting-with-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/910135\/","title":{"rendered":"Smullen drops out of NY-21 Congressional race after meeting with Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Robert Smullen will not run in November for New York\u2019s 21st Congressional District after meeting with President Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Smullen lost the Republican primary in June to Trump-endorsed candidate Anthony Constantino. After that loss, Smullen hinted at a November run under the Conservative Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Now, Smullen says he met with the president and decided not to run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In a statement, he says the president discussed other ways for him to pursue public service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Constantino will face Democrat Blake Gendebien in November for the seat currently held by Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, who is not seeking reelection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">If Smullen had decided to run as a third-party candidate, it may have benefited Democrats by splitting the Republican vote and possibly flipping a coveted seat in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Robert Smullen will not run in November for New York\u2019s 21st Congressional District after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":910136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[35386,5229,14732,67892,15784,9958,6279,446,175345,279,635,405,403,50,5226,5225,17354,103883,5228,5227,80,5207,7047,633,359468,175346,277,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,47139,636],"class_list":["post-910135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-35386","tag-america","tag-candidate","tag-congressional","tag-conservative","tag-country","tag-district","tag-donald","tag-elise","tag-gop","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-north","tag-northern","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-president","tag-republican","tag-robert","tag-smullen","tag-stefanik","tag-trump","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wcax","tag-york"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910135","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=910135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}