Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – Still stinging from Tuesday’s general election losses – some expected and others not so much – Erie County Republican chairman Michael Kracker is ready to go on the offensive, not defensive.<\/p>\n
“We do have to look at the local races pretty quickly,” Kracker said.<\/p>\n
Both locally and nationally, Republicans suffered more losses than victories.<\/p>\n
One of he surprises: Williamsville Village Trustee Steven Meyer, a Democrat, upsetting long time county clerk and political insider Michael ‘Mickey’ Kearns.<\/p>\n
“The one good thing this year is we did get new faces off the sidelines and into races,” Kracker said.<\/p>\n
That will help lay a foundation for 2027 – and beyond.<\/p>\n
Especially next year with a wide open Erie County Executive’s race now that incumbent Mark Poloncarz is not seeking re-election.<\/p>\n
“I know there will be a post-mortem about what went right and what went wrong,” said Rep. Nick Langworthy, a former Erie County GOP chairman.<\/p>\n
Langworthy won re-election in Tuesday’s race.<\/p>\n
Kracker said he and GOP leadership are already working on the 2027 election cycle including recruiting new candidates and bolstering incumbents.<\/p>\n
Except the Republicans to be very aggressive, Kracker pledged.<\/p>\n
“WE are going to leave the singing and dancing for Mark Poloncarz,” Kracker said,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – Still stinging from Tuesday’s general election losses – some expected and others not so…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[130323,76402,5497,136,138,137,102656,182,130322,50,88606],"class_list":["post-320999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-2027-erie-county-executive-election","tag-all-local","tag-election-day","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-erie-county-gop","tag-local-news","tag-michael-kracker","tag-politics","tag-wben-am"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}