Nationally, GOP Makes Gains, But New York Remains Status Quo
Written by on November 18, 2024
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The 2024 elections have come and gone. Nationally, the Republican Party won the White House and both houses of Congress as voters sought to move away from the policies of the Biden-Harris administration. In New York, the Democratic Party flipped three seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and voters approved a deeply misguided amendment to the New York Constitution.
In the presidential election, the Republican ticket of former President Donald Trump (R-FL) and U.S. Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) defeated the Democratic ticket of Vice President Kamala Harris (D-CA) and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). The Trump/Vance ticket received 312 electoral votes, while Harris/Walz received 226. President Trump and Sen. Vance won 31 states and prevailed in the popular vote, and Vice President Harris and Gov. Walz won 226 electoral votes and 19 states. Before the election, New York Families identified seven swing states that would be key to the election’s outcome.[1] President Trump and Sen. Vance prevailed in all seven of those states, six of which had supported the Democratic ticket in 2020.
President-elect Trump will have the opportunity to work with a Republican-led Congress. As New York Families predicted, the Republican Party won control of the U.S. Senate on Election Day. Incumbent Democratic Sens. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Bob Casey (D-PA), and Jon Tester (D-MT) were unseated by Sens.-elect Bernie Moreno (R-OH), Dave McCormick (R-PA), and Tim Sheehy (R-MT), respectively. In addition, Republican Gov. Jim Justice won the open West Virginia seat vacated due to the impending retirement of Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Joe Manchin. In January, Republicans will control 53 seats in the 100-member body, while Democrats (and Democrat-affiliated independents) will control 47.
In the U.S. House of Representatives, the Republicans retained their razor-thin majority. At this writing, Republicans have won 218 seats in the House, while Democrats have won 209. (A majority consists of 218 seats.) Eight House races remain too close to call. The Republicans’ control of the House has been made more tenuous by the fact that President-elect Trump has appointed multiple House members to Cabinet positions.
The Democratic Party fared better in New York than it did nationally. As expected, the Harris/Walz ticket defeated the Trump/Vance ticket by a comfortable margin in New York, and Democratic U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand defeated Republican challenger Mike Sapraicone. In the House, Democratic challengers ousted three New York incumbents. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY4) was defeated by Laura Gillen, Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-NY19) was defeated by Josh Riley, and Rep. Brandon Williams (R-NY22) was defeated by State Sen. John Mannion. All other House incumbents from New York held their seats. These House results are a victory for Gov. Kathy Hochul, who made it a priority to assist other Democratic candidates this year. In 2022, Gov. Hochul needed eleventh-hour help from national allies to win her gubernatorial election; she was later blamed by other Democrats for their party’s poor showing in the 2022 House elections.
Democrats retained solid majorities in the State Senate and the State Assembly, although Senate Democrats relinquished their veto-proof two-thirds majority due to the defeat of Democratic Sen. Iwen Chu by Republican challenger Steve Chan in Brooklyn’s Senate District 17. Aside from Sen. Chu, no other State Senate incumbents were unseated. A few State Assembly races remain too close to call.
Sadly, and despite New York Family Foundation’s opposition, New York’s Proposal One was approved by the voters by a margin of more than 20%. Proposal One may well lead to extremist court decisions that erode religious freedom, remove New York law’s last remaining shreds of protection for unborn human life, and impose lies and confusion about sex and gender upon our families and institutions.
New York Families thanks the Christian New Yorkers who prayed about this year’s elections and voted in accordance with Biblical principles.
[1] Those seven swing states were Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
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