{"id":275468,"date":"2026-06-23T17:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/275468\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:25:23","slug":"ny-primary-voters-choosing-21st-congressional-district-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/275468\/","title":{"rendered":"NY primary voters choosing 21st Congressional District nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Voters in New York\u2019s North Country are hitting the polls Tuesday to decide who will run in the November general election, including the candidates for the 21st Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">That race is to fill the seat vacated by Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"The candidates who hope to win their parties' nominations in the primary to face off in...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/R5SNVEUGVVCHPLMBXCC63BBCUY.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>The candidates who hope to win their parties&#8217; nominations in the primary to face off in November for New York&#8217;s 21st Congressional District.(WCAX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Democratic primary features Lake Placid business owner Stuart Amoriell and dairy farmer Blake Gendebien.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On the Republican side, businessman Anthony Constantino is running against Assemblyman Robert Smullen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Voters in Plattsburgh said it is important to be part of the democratic process and have a say in who represents them in Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI\u2019ve been telling my kids from when they were little, you have to vote because you can\u2019t complain if you don\u2019t use your voice to make choices. And I want them to always make the best choices that they can, so that starts with voting,\u201d said Desiree Kirk of Plattsburgh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The winners of Tuesday\u2019s election will face off this fall to fill Rep. Elise Stefanik\u2019s seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Polls will be open until 9 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (WCAX) &#8211; Voters in New York\u2019s North Country are hitting the polls Tuesday to decide who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59817,100055,88865,88815,56433,97871,17713,1624,19636,105880,93,9,11,10,12,17712,1635,6363,87,10783,35046,26386,19157,105978,16670,4727,1631,1068],"class_list":["post-275468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-21st","tag-amoriell","tag-anthony","tag-blake","tag-congressional","tag-constantino","tag-country","tag-district","tag-elise","tag-gendebien","tag-new","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-north","tag-northern","tag-plattsburgh","tag-politics","tag-primary","tag-robert","tag-smullen","tag-stefanik","tag-stuart","tag-voters","tag-voting","tag-wcax","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275468","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=275468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}