Here are the five topics we’re watching with the elections less than three weeks away.
(BD TOP NEWS BLOG)_ Election Day is less than three weeks away, and while New York isn’t one of the seven swing states that will likely decide the presidential election, there are still a number of important issues for Empire State residents to vote on.
Here’s New York Focus’s guide to what’s at stake and why it all matters.
There are hundreds of candidates running for state legislature, local judgeships, school boards, district attorneys’ offices, and more. We’ve picked five key topics to focus on:
- The presidential and US Senate elections.
- How New York’s battleground House seats could decide control of Congress.
- Five ballot measures for New York City voters that Mayor Eric Adams says would improve city government — but opponents claim are just a power play.
- A proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the New York State Constitution, which supporters say would protect abortion access.
- Whether Democrats will lose their supermajorities in the state legislature.
You can read the rest of our coverage of New York’s elections here.
Does Donald Trump have any chance in New York?
Almost certainly not.
Democratic candidates for president easily won the state in 2016 and 2020, and according to a New York Times analysis of polling through Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris has led Trump in New York by an average of 14 points. More: