Not exact matches
The win by
Democratic Senate candidate Shelley Mayer in the 37th Senate district showed the power of anti-Trump fervor in the New York
City suburbs, the usefulness of a united
Democratic state Senate for the party
and that the
suburbs themselves are highly engaged right now electoral politics.
The Republican has predicted he can win enough voters upstate
and in the
suburbs to overcome the heavy
Democratic vote in New York
City.
He said Republicans would be wise to find a moderate candidate with cross-over appeal to independent
and Democratic voters who could carry Upstate New York
and compete in New York
City and its
suburbs.
A loose group of reformers led by Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh are balking at throwing their support behind Mr. Heastie, the chair of the Bronx
Democratic Party,
and women lawmakers in the
city and suburbs are still attracted to the candidacy of Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, a Queens Democrat
and the only woman in the race.
The
Democratic governor has glibly dismissed earlier forms of congestion pricing for their lack of political support in the
city's
suburbs and outer boroughs.
The basic political math of any
Democratic gubernatorial candidate goes like this: run up the score in New York
City, win in the
suburbs and don't get creamed upstate.
Despite those attacks
and the traditional surge in
Democratic turnout in New York
City's
suburbs, Flanagan held firm in the Hudson Valley
and, it seems, Long Island.
In reviewing the FEC records, The Post analyzed fundraising data for New York
City and its suburbs in New Jersey, on Long Island and north of the city — a region that had become an outsized source of Democratic campaign c
City and its
suburbs in New Jersey, on Long Island
and north of the
city — a region that had become an outsized source of Democratic campaign c
city — a region that had become an outsized source of
Democratic campaign cash.
The district contains a mix of affluent, GOP - leaning
suburbs and poorer, heavily
Democratic city neighborhoods.
Likewise, voters in Wake County, North Carolina, did the right thing in producing a
Democratic school board sweep for candidates supportive of a nationally recognized school integration plan in the
city of Raleigh
and the surrounding
suburbs.