Molly Burke reports in the Times Union that Joshua Eisen, a Westchester County business person, has announced a bid for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand. Her seat is up for election in 2024. In 2020 Eisen ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in New York’s 17th Congressional District, but dropped out before the Republican primary and then unsuccessfully sought to revive his campaign. Eisen's business is background checks, and he says his campaign will focus on reducing government regulation and involvement in daily life. Eisen specifically says he wants to help businesses with large loans from the government, but not students burdened with debt. During his campaign for the U.S. House, City & State reported that Eisen was sanctioned twice by judges between 2014 and 2017 for “harassing his legal opponents and their family members, their lawyers and their lawyers’ family members.” The story also said that court filings showed evidence of Eisen “repeatedly using the n-word in emails, [described] the sexual appetite and anatomy of an opposing lawyer’s daughter, and [told] a legal opponent’s wife in an email that she would 'bathe in the warm semen of Mengele,' a reference to the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.” Eisen then called the old comments in emails, “just frivolous commentary from a lawyer in a civil case.” Evan Lukaske, a spokesperson for Gillibrand’s campaign, said, “MAGA-Republican Josh Eisen's long and documented history of stalking, harassment, misogyny and racism are utterly disqualifying for the office he seeks.... Every Republican member of Congress in New York state should and will have to answer for Eisen's candidacy.” Read more about this story in the Times Union.