A former CNN anchor and a retired chemistry professor are facing off in a Democratic primary to pick a challenger to U.S. Rep. Nick LaLota in an eastern Long Island congressional district that has been in Republican hands for a decade.
John Avlon attends The Hollywood Reporter’s annual Most Powerful People in Media cocktail reception, at The Pool, April 11, 2019, in New York. Avlon is the incumbent Democrat candidate for Congress in New York’s District 1. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, …, who was a senior political analyst at CNN, is running in Tuesday’s election against Nancy Goroff, a professor emeritus at Stony Brook University.
She said she’s confident a Democrat can win in the district, which stretches from the sandy Hamptons on the eastern tip of Long Island more than 80 miles westward to the outer ring of commuter suburbs east of President Joe Biden won the district in 2020 by a very small margin, but Democratic state lawmakers changed its borders slightly earlier this year to make it slightly more Republican, potentially giving other Democrats on the island a better chance at winning their races.
Both candidates point to a host of explanations for why Republicans have thrived in recent elections on Long Island, which has been receptive to conservative candidates in recent elections. Their explanations include lagging Democratic turnout, the strength of particular candidates and voter fears about crime in
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