Andrew Garbarino

In 2012, Phil Boyle vacated his New York Assembly seat to run for the New York Senate. Garbarino was nominated by the New York Republican Party to replace him, and won his first term with 56%.[8] He has been reelected three times since.[9]

Following the announcement that 14-term incumbent Representative Peter T. King would not be running for re-election in 2020, Garbarino announced his intention to run for Congress in New York's 2nd congressional district. He ran in the Republican Party primary on June 23, 2020, and was endorsed by King, as well as the Nassau County and Suffolk County Republican Parties.[14] He defeated Assemblyman Mike LiPetri, 65 percent to 35 percent.[15]

In the general election, Garbarino was the candidate of the Republican Party, the Conservative Party, the Libertarian Party, and the Save America Movement Party. He ran against Jackie Gordon, the nominee of the Democratic, Working Families, and Independence parties, and defeated her by a 53 to 46 percent margin.[16][17]

Garbarino was sworn in on January 3, 2021.[18]

On January 6, 2021, Rep. Garbarino voted against the challenge to the Pennsylvania results.

Rep. Garbarino wrote:

The role of Congress is not to overturn the election or to take actions that silence voters. The Constitution is clear, the votes must be counted and certified by the states and Congress has the constitutional obligation to accept those electors and certify each states’ elections. All 50 states have certified their elections and the majority of electors have cast their votes for President-Elect Joe Biden. While I join many Long Islanders in wishing the results were different, Congress does not have the constitutional authority to overturn the election.[19]

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