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Liam McCabe

Liam McCabe

  • Democrats Flipped a Brooklyn State Senate Seat in 2018; Is It In Play In 2020?

    Senator Andrew Gounardes Brooklyn Albany presser

    State Senator Andrew Gounardes in Albany (photo: @sen_gounardes)


    Pro-NYPD and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed, sometimes violently, in Southern Brooklyn last weekend, a conflict emblematic of the changing and complicated politics in traditionally moderate to conservative neighborhoods that have been home to leftward political movement, partially due to an influx of new residents.

    One marker of the changes was the 2018 election of Democrat Andrew Gounardes in State Senate District 22, where he defeated long-time

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