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NY-17 Democratic nominee?
$87.4K
JUN 27, 2026Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
Overview
Current roleU.S. Army officer (combat veteran)
PartyDemocratic
Political ideologyMainstream Democrat
GenderFemale
LocationNew York
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BackgroundU.S. Army officer (combat veteran)
EducationUnited States Military Academy at West Point
Notable personal detailsCait Conley is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in New York’s 17th Congressional District in the 2026 cycle. She is an Army combat veteran and West Point graduate with a national security and election-security background, including service as a senior election security advisor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) during the 2024 cycle. She has also been affiliated with Harvard’s Defending Digital Democracy Project and has been described as a Hudson Valley native.
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Positions
LiberalConservative
Economy & Taxes
Supports federal investments to lower costs for families (infrastructure, housing, education, healthcare) and defends Medicaid/Medicare funding while opposing policies she says would raise costs for families. Endorses targeted federal funding and tax credits to support affordable housing and infrastructure rather than cuts to social programs.
Healthcare
Supports protecting and expanding the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid, expanding Medicare benefits (vision, dental, hearing), lowering prescription costs (capping insulin, allowing Medicare negotiation), and protecting reproductive healthcare including codifying Roe v. Wade. Emphasizes defending funding for hospitals, investing in veterans’ care, and opposing cuts to Medicaid and Medicare.
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Immigration & Border
Cait Conley’s campaign materials state she will work to “fix our broken immigration system” and prioritize a “safe and secure America,” but provide no detailed policy prescriptions on asylum, enforcement, or pathways to legal status. Public-facing statements on her site are general and do not clearly place her in an enforcement-first or reform/regularization policy camp.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Supports protecting reproductive freedom by codifying Roe v. Wade into federal law and ensuring access to abortion, contraception, and IVF; supports federal funding for Planned Parenthood and repeal of federal restrictions that cut Medicaid reimbursements to Planned Parenthood.
Climate & Energy
Supports treating climate change as a national security crisis and prioritizes clean energy investments (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal), grid modernization, flood mitigation, and federal funding for resilience and infrastructure updates to lower utility bills and create jobs. Advocates holding utilities accountable and removing regulatory barriers to move alternative energy projects forward. Does not explicitly endorse Green New Deal–style phasing out of fossil fuels in the cited materials.
Public Safety & Guns
Supports universal background checks and red flag laws, a ban on assault weapons, crackdowns on ghost guns, and funding for law enforcement as well as suicide prevention and community violence intervention programs.
News
AINews Summary
Last updatedMar 14, 2026
Cait Conley is emerging as a top contender in the Democratic primary for New York’s 17th Congressional District, running in a tight race with Beth Davidson and Peter Chatzky as a large share of voters remain undecided. She is also under scrutiny over past work for defense contractors tied to AI border surveillance, including earning more than $80,000 from Primer AI and Hidden Level. Conley is leaning into her national security and military background and says she wants to shape AI policy to help middle-class New Yorkers.
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Polls
NY-17 Democratic nominee?
Aggregation source: FiftyPlusOne
Fundraising
Latest report: Cycle 2026Total raisedCash on hand
$4.3M
$3.2M
$2.2M
$1.1M
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2026
LatestYear
Total raised
Cash on hand
Total spent
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Cycle 2026
$4.3M
$1.3M
$3.0M
$166.6K
Source: FEC
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