After Donald Trump failed to capitalize at the first presidential debate and showed signs of weakness, his support dropped across the swing-state map. This has the Republican Party leadership . . .
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10/13/16
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State Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach) defeated Republican challenger Chris McGrath of Hewlett Harbor by 886 votes in a tightly contested special election in April. Kaminsky was then the assemblyman representing the 20th A.D.
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By Anthony Rifilato and Jeff Bessen
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10/12/16
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Hofstra University played host on Sept. 26 to the first of three presidential debates this year, pitting Democrat Hillary Clinton against Republican Donald Trump in what the pundits most often described as an historic forum.
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By Jeff Bessen and Scott Brinton
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10/5/16
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It was a convention like no other. The intensity of this event of colossal proportions and implications, nationally and globally, stirred the highest of passionate emotions in each of the thousands who came from every part of the globe to be a part of history at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
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By Ann Schockett
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7/27/16
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I have returned from Cleveland safe and sound. Let me tell you, it’s been a long time since the New York delegation had such prime seats for the big show. Our delegation, and the entire crowd, was enthusiastic . . .
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7/27/16
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Last August I wrote a column about the campaign for the White House and the efforts of Donald J. Trump to win his party’s nomination. Knowing that we’re living in uncertain times, I did not dare to predict that he wouldn’t get the Republican Party nomination. As I am frequently wrong, according to my wife . . .
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7/27/16
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A day before the official start of the 2016 Republican National Presidential Convention in Cleveland, there was an electric feeling in the air that buzzed through your body.
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By Ann Salpeter Schockett
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7/20/16
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The announcement we’d all been waiting for — who would join Donald Trump in his campaign to be the country’s next president — was overshadowed by yet another senseless terrorist attack, this one in Nice, France. More than 80 people were killed . . .
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7/20/16
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Atlantic Beach Mayor George Pappas has known fellow village resident Missy Miller for more than 25 years. He knows the grief Missy and her husband, Brandon, suffered when they lost a daughter, Melanie, and the ongoing challenge of caring for their son, Oliver, who suffered a stroke at birth, is blind and endures severe daily seizures.
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By Jeff Bessen
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6/15/16
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Everyone says that none of the current candidates for president have anything in common. But I’ve concluded that the two candidates who are most alike are Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
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5/26/16
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