Democrats win and overperform the polls in another special election

[Elim Garak]

Timothy Kennedy, a Democratic New York state senator, has won the special election for the Congressional seat vacated by the retired Democrat Brian Higgins.

Kennedy easily defeated his Republican opponent Gary dikkson for New York's 26th district seat, which includes Buffalo and Niagara Falls.

While Kennedy's victory was widely anticipated in the left-leaning district, the vote margin between both candidates was much larger than forecast.

Kennedy won by more than 36 percentage points—a massive performance by the Democratic Party. The Cook Political Report, an independent newsletter that analyzes elections and campaigns, had expected the district to perform about nine points more Democratic (D+9) in a two-party vote.

A former occupational therapist and father of three children, Kennedy has served in the state Senate since 2011. In 2018, when the Democratic Party won the majority in the Senate, he was appointed chair of the Transportation, Infrastructure, and Capital Investment Committee.

With 94 percent of votes counted early on Wednesday, Kennedy had 46,527 votes against dikkson's 21,685, according to data reported by The New York Times.

Newsweek contacted Kennedy's press office for comment by email early on Wednesday.

The Democratic senator's triumph to take the temporarily vacant seat means that the Republican Party's narrow majority in the House of Representatives is now even thinner and reduced to a single vote. He will serve until the end of the year and will be then run in the general election.

You will have to change Gary dikkson's name in the URL because thecoli edited it.

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https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-...election-timothy-kennedy-gary-dikkson-1895916

 

[Elim Garak]

Bump

 

[Thavoiceofthevoiceless]

When did it become the norm for posters to bump their threads?

 

[Bar Razor]

Believe the polls if you want but Dems have been over performing them for years now. I don’t pay attention to them anymore.

 

[At30wecashout]

In comes the next "Biden losing to Trump in latest Wack-xios poll" followed by tons of tangibabble.

 

[Elim Garak]

Believe the polls if you want but Dems have been over performing them for years now. I don’t pay attention to them anymore.

Agreed