Kings County was center stage on Election Night 2018, helping to flip the State Senate and the U.S. House blue. What drove the electoral shift behind those results, and what will their impact be on the borough? We asked two veteran journalists.
Staten Island’s Democratic challenger Max Rose took out incumbent GOP Rep. Dan Donovan by over 10,000 votes Tuesday in New York’s 11th Congressional District.
At a rally last week, there was a sampling of the sentiments that could propel a set of young, progressive women into Congress on Tuesday.
The Staten Island Republican is trying to defend his seat against a ‘blue wave’ in a race with national implications.
The candidates clashed on immigration, opioids, the president and their campaign fundraising.
We spoke to residents of Staten Island—site of one of the fall’s most closely watched Congressional races—about their borough’s most pressing issues and whether they intend to swing blue or red this November.
The upstate congressman and attorney general hopeful has supported justice reform and new protections for cops, fought the Muslim ban but voted for increasing screenings of some Mideast nationals and railed against deportations but opposed the abolition of ICE
In a crowded field of Democrats hoping to become the state’s top law-enforcement official, the Hudson Valley congressman is positioning himself as the candidate best suited to take on President Trump.
‘It’s scandalous that we would rather blow up homes (and you know, people) in foreign countries than supply them to anyone who needs them in ours.’
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise victory over Joe Crowley, a 10-term incumbent who leads the Queens Democratic party and was considered a possible candidate for House Speaker, was the biggest news on federal primary night.
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