The G.O.P. Gained Ground in New York in 2022. Can Democrats Recover?

In 2022, Democrats won 101 of 150 seats in the State Assembly, and 42 of 63 in the State Senate — slightly fewer than their peak in 2020. Since then, a handful of lawmakers have resigned, leaving open seats that Republicans are determined to win. Many of the seats overlap with hotly contested congressional districts.

Dorey Houle is running for State Senate in the Hudson Valley, which is part of New York’s 18th Congressional District. That’s where Alison Esposito, a Republican and a former New York City police commander, is looking to unseat the Democratic incumbent, Pat Ryan.

Ms. Houle acknowledged that most of the attention was focused on the top of the ticket. Even so, Ms. Houle, who previously taught American Sign Language at the College of Staten Island, said “there are a lot of people who are still very concerned with the direction that specifically New York State is heading in.”

Ms. Houle is challenging State Senator James Skoufis, a powerful lawmaker who leads the Senate Committee on Investigations and Government Operations.



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