Dunne appears to best Thomas in 6th Senate District; Darling re-elected

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Election Day 2020 turned out to be a wild one.

As of midnight on Tuesday, tens of thousands of absentee ballots remained to be counted, making projecting winners in any number of races for Congress and the State Legislature tricky, if not impossible.

U.S. Rep. Kathleen Rice, a Democrat representing the 4th Congressional District, was re-elected, cinching 52 percent of the vote to 47 percent for her opponent, Republican Douglas Tuman.

“Serving the people of New York’s 4th Congressional District is the greatest privilege of my life, and I am eager to continue fighting for Long Island in Congress,” Rice said. “I believe we can move forward from this election stronger and more unified. Long Islanders and Americans of all political backgrounds want an end to the dysfunction in Washington, and we can only achieve that if we work together.”

Democratic Incumbent Taylor Darling, of the 18th Assembly District, won her re-elction bid against Republican Cherice Vanderhall by a wide margin, according to an unofficial count by the Nassau County Board of Elections. 

With nearly 60 percent of the votes estimated to be in, as of 11:50 p.m. on Election Day, Darling received 26,781 votes, with Vanderhall receiving 5,182 votes. 

The 18th Assembly District includes parts of Freeport, Roosevelt, Uniondale, Hempstead and Lakeview. 

In the 6th Senate District, Republican challenger Dennis Dunne appeared to have State Sen. Kevin Thomas, a Democrat from Levittown. Dunne had 54 percent of the vote to Thomas’s  46 percent, according to the State Board of Elections. Yet-to-be-counted absentee ballots, however, could change the course of this race.

As the Herald went to press Wednesday morning, the presidential race pitting Donald Trump against Joe Biden remained undecided, with key battleground states — Pennsylavania, Michigan and Wisconsin, along with Arizona, Nevada and Georgia — still furiously counting votes. The presidency, according to the pundits, may not be decided until Friday.