Sean Patrick Maloney, the five-term incumbent of New York’s Hudson Valley, suffered one of America’s worst political defeats on Tuesday, ending, for now, an ambitious career that once seemed headed for state office or high-profile jobs in the Congress. “I don’t like to lose, but my opponent won this match. He earned it fair and square and that means something. So I’m going to step aside and I’ve had a good run,” Maloney, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said Wednesday morning at the group’s new outpost in D.C.’s Navy Yard neighborhood.
