Election 2020

A political action committee has added $550,000 to its advertising buy in New York's First Congressional District, where Nancy Goroff is challenging Representative Lee Zeldin.

It did not take long for the president to shift attention from new and stunning revelations about his tax-avoidance schemes and precarious financial position, as detailed this week in The New York Times.

The Painters Union political action committee has endorsed Representative Lee Zeldin's re-election campaign.

In an election year that is anything but normal, gone are the traditional in-person events like door-to-door canvassing and gatherings for fund-raising and enthusiasm-building. Instead, people eager to help their respective parties are working phone banks and text banks targeting voters in battleground states, distributing mail-in ballot applications and lawn signs, and making sure people where, how, and when to vote.

Whether President Trump’s low favorables will hurt him in Suffolk County is a real question, one on which Lee Zeldin’s immediate political future depends.

For National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and North Fork will be providing voter information at tables set up across the East End. 

Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic Party's nominee for president, has announced his support for Nancy Goroff, the Democrats' candidate in New York's First Congressional District.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, and Assemblyman Anthony Palumbo have introduced legislation in response to the removal of the early voting polling location in the Town of Shelter Island.

New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has endorsed Laura Ahearn, the Democratic nominee for the First State Senate District.

In Suffolk County, eligible voters have three options for voting: absentee ballot, in person during early voting from Oct. 24 to Nov. 1, and at their polling places on Nov. 3.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee released a poll conducted last month that had Nancy Goroff leading Representative Lee Zeldin, 48 percent to 46 percent, in the race to represent New York's First Congressional District. 

The East Hampton Town Republican Committee and Representative Lee Zeldin will honor Representative Peter King in Wainscott on Sept. 13.