Democratic New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand won Re-elected to a third full term on Tuesday, he easily defeated Republican challenger Mike Sapricone, a retired NYPD detective, according to unofficial results.
The Associated Press declared the race as polls closed in New York at 9 p.m.
Dem, 57, was first appointed to the Senate in 2009 by then-Gov. David Patterson, After that-Sen. Hillary Clinton leaves office to become President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State.
Gillibrand then won election in 2010 to complete Clinton’s term and was re-elected in 2016 and 2020.
When she became a senator, the former upstate congresswoman moved to the left on some policy issues, such as gun control.
She has also been a leading advocate against sexual harassment and sexual exploitation of women in the military.
In 2017, she was the first Democratic senator to demand the resignation of a then-Senator. Al Franken of Minnesota, who was accused of inappropriately touching and kissing women.
She also made headlines when she said that then-President Bill Clinton, a former political supporter, should have resigned over the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Gillibrand made a brief, unsuccessful attempt bid for president Following his 2018 Senate re-election victory.
Saprykon, A Retired NYPD Detective Joe, who has headed a security consulting firm, was running for public office for the first time this year.
He was heavily outspent by Gillibrand, whose campaign aired expensive 30-second commercials during World Series games promoting her legislative bills to help 9/11 first responders and veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. Had paid for TV commercials.
Gillibrand was ahead of Sapricone 57% to 31% in a pre-election poll conducted by Siena College in late October.
She will continue to work with New York’s senior senator, Democratic majority leader Chuck Schumer, who was first elected to the upper house in 1998 after serving as a Brooklyn congressman.
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