Democrat Sam Sutton won a special election in New York for state Senate in a district President Donald Trump won by a vast margin in the 2024 election.
Sutton defeated Republican Nachman Caller, an attorney who previously ran for state Assembly. He beat Caller 67.6% to 32.4%.
Sutton’s win retains the seat for the Democrats. The special election was called after former state Sen. Simcha Felder resigned from his position last month to serve on the New York City Council.
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The Brooklyn district includes a heavily Orthodox Jewish area, a community to which Sutton has close ties as a co-leader of the Sephardic Community Federation. In the last election, Trump won 77% of the vote within the district’s boundaries.
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