NYC’s Rep. Nicole Malliotakis defeats Democratic opponent Max Rose for a second time

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, New York City’s only Republican member of Congress, won reelection in the state’s 11th Congressional District on Tuesday, defeating Democrat Max Rose.

The battle the two have fought over the last several weeks has been a bitter and, at times, personal one.

The race was a rematch. After Rose beat the incumbent Republican Dan Donovan in 2018, he held the congressional seat for just one term and was defeated by Malliotakis in 2020 — the same year her ally, former President Donald Trump, was ousted from the White House.

In this year’s go-round, Rose consistently attacked Malliotakis on abortion, an issue many Democrats honed in on in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in June.

Malliotakis focused much more of her attention on crime and inflation, which have also been key issues for many other Republicans.

But the race also veered into the personal. In September, a Rose campaign sign was defaced with a swastika. Earlier this month, another sign was graffitied with the name Soros — a reference to the philanthropist George Soros, a Holocaust survivor and the subject of several anti-Jewish conspiracy theories.

Rose, an Army combat veteran, is the first Jew to represent Staten Island.