GOP fights to flip NY Senate seat in Tuesday special election after Trump won big in blue territory
GOP candidate Nachman Caller and Democrat Sam Sutton are running for a vacant seat after former state Sen. Simcha Felder recently won a special election to fill a vacancy in the City Council.
4 GOP candidate Nachman Caller is running for the vacant seat.
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4 Democrat Sam Sutton is looking to pick up Sen. Simcha Felder's vacant seat.
Brooklyn Democratic Party
The 22nd district encampases heavy Jewish neightborhoods including Midwood, Flatbush, Borough Park, Madison, Marine Park, Gerritsen Beach, Gravesend and Sheepshead Bay.
Democrats greatly outnumber Republicans but many are moderate-to-conservative voters who will cross party lines.
Felder, a conservative Democrat who once caucused with Republicans, has not endorsed in the race.
Democrat Sutton has deep ties to the Sephardic community. He is a co-leader of the Sephardic Community Federation.
4 Sutton is a co-leader of the Sephardic Community Federation.
Brooklyn Democratic Party
Caller, a Republican district leader, is a real estate lawyer who previously ran for the state Assembly.
Sutton has the support of the Democratic Party establishment, including Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres, a staunch supporter of Israel who is eying a run for governor.
Caller has the backing of upstate Rep. Elise Stefanik, the House Republican chairwoman, and Rep. Mike Lawyer, whose lower Hudson Valley district includes a large orthodox Jewish population.
4 President Trump carried the district last year with 77% of the vote.
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A former Felder campaign strategist, O'Brien 'O.B.' Murray, is working for Caller.
Both sides said it's a competitive race and voter turnout will likely determine the outcome.
Murray emphasized a Caller victory will leave Democrats two votes shy of a veto proof majority in the Senate.
'This is an opportunity for every voter in the district to say 'enough is enough' to the radical liberal agenda in Albany,' Murray said.
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