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Explaining New York’s Red Wave

Can Republicans build on the pickups they made in the Empire State?
Republican congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis wins re-election
Staten Island Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis celebrates her re-election on November 8. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images.)

Last spring, liberals in New York were giddy: Democrats running the state legislature jumped at the chance to redraw the state’s congressional map in the party’s favor and deliver big midterm gains.

But they ran into a big problem: Their overtly partisan map turned out to be an overly ambitious bet.

Audrey is a former reporter for The Dispatch.

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