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ALBANY, N.Y. — Rep. Chris Jacobs has announced he will not seek
another term in Congress, after the Republican faced rising
backlash from the right following his announcement last week
that he would support new gun control measures.

“It would be an incredibly divisive election for both the
Republican Party and the people of the 23rd District,” Jacobs
said Friday afternoon at a press conference in Buffalo. “The
last thing we need is an incredibly negative half-truth filled
media attack funded by millions of dollars of special interest
money coming into our community around this issue of guns and
gun violence and gun control.”

Jacobs’ departure from the race will likely lead to a scramble
among Republicans in what will now be an open contest in New
York’s reddest seat.

Jacobs, a resident of suburban Buffalo, has spent the past two
years representing a seat in the northwest corner of the state.
Hours after new maps were released on May 21, he announced plans
to run for a new district along New York’s border with
Pennsylvania, which most closely resembles the seat that was
recently vacated by Republican Tom Reed.

In the aftermath of a shooting at a supermarket near his
district, he declared he would support measures such as a ban on
semiautomatic rifles and a new minimum age of 18 to purchase
firearms.

That quickly led to an uproar among his fellow Republicans.

“I was very surprised by Congressman Jacobs’ surprise
announcement,” state GOP Chair Nick Langworthy told reporters in
Albany earlier this week. “I think everybody was caught very
flat-footed by his adopting the Democrat position on gun
control.”

Langworthy has spent recent days taking steps toward a possible
campaign of his own.

There’s a chance the race could get crowded. Buffalo developer
Carl Paladino, the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nominee, told Spectrum
News earlier Friday he would run if Jacobs ended his bid.

Paladino was endorsed by fellow New York Republican Elise
Stefanik less than an hour after Jacobs bowed out.

“I am proud to announce my endorsement of my friend Carl
Paladino,” she said in a statement. “Carl is a job creator and
conservative outsider who will provide Western New York and the
Southern Tier with strong representation and leadership. Carl
will be a tireless fighter for the people of New York in our
fight to put America First to save the country.”

Any primary elections for the seat will be held Aug. 23. That
same day, there will be a special election to finish off Reed’s
term in the term in the overlapping seat. At least before
Jacobs’ departure, Republicans had been eyeing a placeholder
candidate for that special election.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/03/jacobs-reelection-gun- control-00037187

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