The party has lost four seats of representative in this state supposed to be one of its bastions.
by Arnaud Leparmentier (New York, correspondent)
This is the fault in New York! Thus resonates the small music, while the Republicans seem able to take the House of Representatives of extreme accuracy. Nothing would have been possible without one of the most democratic renowned states, New York. Camp Biden lost four representative seats there and could abandon a fifth during counting for the benefit of the Conservatives. “The House Republicans would have no majority without New York State,” the New York Republican Republican Republican Republican Elise Stefanik told the New York Times. “What do you say about this irony?” The joke is not to the taste of the Democrats. “It was a terrible night in New York,” said Howard Wolfson, one of the democratic strategists. “It is exasperating that a night as good for the Democrats overall is canceled by arrogance and incompetence here.”
In fine, there will undoubtedly be fifteen Democratic seats and eleven Republicans, in a state populated by 20 million inhabitants who lost a seat because of its demographic decline. How did we get there, when the republican wave broke net on almost all of the American territory, with the notorious exception of Florida?
First, the context: New York is not only New York City: the state has the North campaigns, between Pennsylvania and Lake Ontario, which are republican. The State had until 2006 a republican governor, with George Pataki, and Michael Bloomberg, mayor of the city from 2002 to 2014, was elected with a republican label for his first mandate, before passing independent.
And then everyone had seen the wind bad, with a last meeting organized in panic by Joe Biden, to support the Democratic candidate for the post of governor, Kathy Hochul, who gave the “the” to the whole campaign. This almost unknown woman had taken the post of governor following the resignation of Andrew Cuomo, in the summer of 2021, accused of harassment. His election was to be a health walk. His final score against a Trumpist candidate, Lee Zeldin, turned out to be very bad, with less than 53 % of the vote. It has had its resistance to massive support for the African-American and Caribbean electorate.
delinquency, major concern
Then, the city and its suburbs are experiencing indisputable difficulties, and this is where the Democrats took their feet in the carpet. Delinquency is not a feeling: the number of murders in the city, 488 in 2021, jumped 67 % compared to the lowest, in 2017. The number of homicides is certainly down 13 % from the start From 2022, but the concern remains major, especially since other crimes (rapes, burglaries, assaults, etc.) increased by 28 %. Above all, the metro is the scene of traumatic homicides, nine since the beginning of the year, against an average of two per year before the pandemic of COVVI-19.
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