The 18th Congressional District touches Sullivan County, and stretches out as far as Putnam County, and down to Westchester. The seat is currently held by Sean Patrick Maloney.

"I'm going to keep doing this job because there's so much work to do, and that's what gets me up in the morning," said Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney.

But Orange County Legislator Jimmy O' Donnell says he can bring results that Maloney can't.

"I think we've seen from the fighting down in DC, the past six years, it's disgraceful. The people deserve better, and I plan on delivering better," said 18th Congressional District candidate Jimmy O'Donnell.  

Maloney has served the district since 2013. This year, he ran for attorney general and Congress at the same time, which was cleared by a state Supreme Court judge. Maloney went on Capital Tonight in August to address his challenger's criticism.

"I understand why they do it, but here's the bottom line, voters should decide this, and that's what's going to happen, that's good," said Maloney.  

Maloney lost the AG primary and has kept with the congressional race. O'Donnell's campaign has said Maloney doesn't have Hudson Valley interests at heart. 

"He spent $5.3 million trying for the job he really wants — attorney general. He came in third, this is his backup plan, and nobody in the 18th Congressional District should be a backup plan," said O'Donnell. 

When it comes to the issues, the candidates have different priorities. For Maloney, it's a clean Hudson River and helping those with addiction. O'Donnell says it's safety, and creating a national See Something Say Something hotline. 

"If we had a national hotline that could clear all those, send them to the appropriate agencies to the Joint Terrorism Task Force. The number I had was 1-800 FREEDOM. Every state has their own numbers, but sometimes they get lost — the information. So it goes to one central location it gets disseminated from there, that would be one of my top priorities," said O'Donnell.  

"We've got to work on the opioid epidemic. I was just hearing about the incredible services they provide here at Hudson River Healthcare. But our drinking water is under threat, and we've done important work there both to clean up the water supplies locally, but do better testing to make sure that we get the PCBs out of the Hudson River, keep the oil barge anchorages off the Hudson River," said Maloney.   

Both promise to work across the aisle to do what's right by Hudson Valley constituents.