Joseph Morelle

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — It's a three-way race this year in the effort to win the Democratic primary in New York's 25th Congressional District, with two of the candidates taking on an incumbent.

“There's 771,000 people for whom I am their only representative,” said U.S. Rep. Joe Morelle. “So, locally, in Washington, wherever I go, I think about how to make sure that their lives are better.”

The 25th Congressional District includes Monroe County and parts of Ontario County.

The current representative is speaking about his priorities, including the economy.

“So, inflation is now at its highest level it's been in years,” Morelle said. “And that’s wrong. People are struggling understandably. So, the tariffs have to come off. We have to start investing in local communities. We have to think about what our strengths are economically.”

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