Democrat Laura Gillen wins New York’s battleground District 4 House seat on Long Island, flipping it blue and overcoming her previous defeat to Republican Rep. Anthony D’Esposito.
Democrat Laura Gillen wins New York’s battleground District 4 House seat on Long Island , flipping it blue and overcoming her previous defeat to Republican Rep. Anthony D’Esposito by four points two years prior.The Associated Press projected the former town supervisor to win the South Shore district around 12:40 on Thursday, two days after the 2024 election .
Though Gillen lost to D’Esposito in 2022, her campaign hoped the presidential election would energize NY-4, which President Joe Biden won in 2020 by a 14-point margin.Gillen, who served as Hempstead's supervisor 2017 – the first Democrat elected to the position in 112 years – leveraged the district's Democratic enrollment advantage and garnered support from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s "Red to Blue" initiative.
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