The Brooklyn Dem declared victory on Wednesday, more than a week after Election Day results showed her in a close race against Republican Vito Labella for a newly drawn Senate district.
Democratic leaders expected to keep at least 40 out of the Senate’s 63 seats in the wake of an election that followed a chaotic redistricting process and saw GOP candidates topple several sitting Dems in both chambers.
GOP hopeful Vito LaBella had some choice words for his home borough in a video posted online last year showing off a landscaping project at a Massachusetts summer house he owns.
GOP hopeful Vito LaBella had some choice words for his home borough in a video posted online last year showing off a landscaping project at a Massachusetts summer house he owns.
Progressives and mainline Dems have coalesced behind Chu, chief of staff for Assemblyman Peter Abbate (D-Brooklyn), at a time when divisions often run deep within the party.