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The Battle of Long Island, also known as the Battle of Brooklyn and the Battle of Brooklyn Heights, was an action of the American Revolutionary War fought on August 27, 1776, at and near the western edge of Long Island in present-day Brooklyn.
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Helped by a strong Democratic win nationwide, Democrats Eliot Spitzer and Hillary Clinton won Long Island in a landslide in the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate race respectively. Democratic Comptroller Alan Hevesi , despite being scandal-ridden, won on Long Island, and Democrat Andrew Cuomo won all of the island's counties in the attorney general ...
Suozzi, the veteran Long Island Democrat known for his moderate bipartisanship, had just won a hard-fought special election to reclaim the Congressional seat held by Republican George Santos who ...
Conversely, Trump made major gains on Long Island, as Clinton won Nassau County by only a slightly reduced 6-point margin rather than the 8-point margin by which Obama had won it, while Suffolk County saw an even bigger swing, going from a 4-point win for Obama to a 7-point win for Trump, the first Republican victory in the county since 1992.
Following is a list of high school teams that have competed in the Long Island Football Championship games on Long Island, New York. The faux or mini championship pits the winner of the divisions/league champions in Nassau County, New York against the winner of the divisions/league in Suffolk County, New York. [1]
Biden won the upstate of New York (excluding New York City's results), albeit by a much smaller 52.4% to 45.9% margin, or 2,923,127 votes to Trump's 2,561,315. In urban Dominican neighborhoods, Trump reached only 15% of the vote to Biden's 85%. [62] Biden also won by 18 points in the Hudson Valley and urban Upstate counties. Trump's core ...
While Hochul was able to flip Schenectady and Columbia counties in Upstate New York, Zeldin made gains in the New York metropolitan area, flipping Rockland, Richmond (Staten Island), Nassau, and Suffolk counties. Hochul won the city of New York with 69.8% to 30