{"id":188038,"date":"2026-04-07T07:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188038\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T07:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T07:20:12","slug":"republican-assemblyman-robert-smullen-officially-files-for-ny-21-june-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188038\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Assemblyman Robert Smullen officially files for NY-21 June primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 Republican Assemblyman <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/search?find=smullen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Robert Smullen<\/a>, who is running for New York\u2019s 21st Congressional District, says he has officially filed to appear on the Republican ballot for the June primary.<\/p>\n<p>Smullen is seeking to replace outgoing Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik. Stefanik previously launched a campaign for governor, later dropped out of that race, and is expected to leave Congress after the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>Smullen faces competition in the Republican primary. Sticker Mule Chief Executive Officer <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs6albany.com\/search?find=constantino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Anthony Constantino<\/a> is also running for the nomination. Constantino is highlighting an endorsement from former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.<\/p>\n<p>Giuliani announced he is backing Constantino\u2019s campaign, saying America needs \u201c100 Constantinos\u201d and arguing Constantino will fight for the American people.<\/p>\n<p>StickerMule CEO Anthony Constantino is also vying for the nomination.<\/p>\n<p>He is touting an endorsement from a former New York City mayor.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Rudy Giuliani announced he is backing Constantino\u2019s campaign, saying America needs \u201c100 Constantinos\u201d and arguing Constantino will fight for the American people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) \u2014 Republican Assemblyman Robert Smullen, who is running for New York\u2019s 21st Congressional District, says&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-188038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}