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Despite what happened in Virginia and New Jersey, Long Island bucked the trend. Good, good candidates, good candidates, the issues and all of you, thank you. In Nassau County, we took all 40, 4 county-wide offices. We maintained, we maintained our legislative majority. We won all three towns. Skip Macaro and Glen Cove will pick up either 1 or 2 seats and listen up that crew down in Long Beach with Brendon and Mike, Jimmy Moriarty. For the first time in 54 years, we swept the city of Long Beach. And the guy who led us to this victory, County Executive Bruce Blankman. Thank you very much chairman. Thank each and every one of you, may God bless you all. First of all, I, I, I wanna thank Hashem God. It all starts there. I want to thank. The men and women of Nassau County for giving us all. Your trust to lead us going forward if it's not for the people of Nassau County coming out the way they did, uh, we wouldn't have had the tremendous result that we've had tonight and I have an amazing group of colleagues that ran with me, but we have the best chairman of any political party in the United States. Let's hear it for Joe Cairo. I just got off the phone with President Trump and he was delighted. And I said to the president, thank you for all you've done. We had faith in President Trump's policies, and the people of Nassau County wanted us to cooperate with ICE. They wanted to get criminals out of our county. They wanted to be the safest county in America, lower taxes. I wanna, I wanna thank my wife Seal who's not here tonight because she's a judge and can't come. My son Arlen is here. Avi Ariel. My grandchildren at home. All my friends and family that are here tonight, all of my supporters that are here, each and every one of you, thank you for everything that you did. I wanna also thank my running mates, the amazing Elaine Phillips. The best prosecutor in America and Don Lee. Our great clerk Maureen O'Connell. My brother from another mother, Joe Saladino. Chandeen. And I got to watch this guy in the legislature. He did an amazing job as a legislator. He's gonna do amazing job for the largest county in America. Let's hear it also for John Ferretti. Congratulations Howie Koppel keeping the majority. 4 years ago we made promises. We said that we wouldn't be a sanctuary county. We said we would take the masks off the kids and stop oppressing our children here in Nassau County. We said we wouldn't raise taxes. We haven't raised taxes 1 penny in 4 years. That's a pretty good record. And we've gotten 7 bond upgrades. We are the safest county in America. I want to thank The PBA, the SOA, the DAI, the corrections officers, all of our law enforcement professionals for keeping us safe each and every day. Thank you to each and every one of them. We have the greatest police department in the world led by a great commissioner Pat Ryder. And we are also blessed to have so many volunteer firefighters and EMTs who keep us safe here in Nassau County. Thank you and God bless you for all you're doing. Thank you to all the unions that backed us, the hardworking men and women of Nassau County. Thank you to our building trades. I also wanna thank a lot of dear people here but time won't let me but I want to single out to Harry Singh thank you Harry for your support. David Mack. I'll make it 3, Jim Betzker and so many of you. So let me say this we are going to continue the work that was started to make us an even more prosperous county to bring job creation, economic development, keep taxes down, support our law enforcement and continue to make this the best place to live in all of New York State. Leadership counts. And we've got great leaders, so to each and every one of you again. My sincerest thanks and may God bless you all and may God bless this great United States of America. Fight, fight, fight.

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To the Nassau Democrats, they're in Garden City at the Garden City Hotel as they await results. Kevin Vesey is there now with the latest. Kevin. Rich, the votes are still being counted right now here in Nassau County, but I can tell you there's a lot of optimism tonight here at their Democratic Party headquarters. Of course you have the top of the ticket, the county executive race at Coslo, but also there are town supervisor races. We're joined now by the Democrat who's running for Oyster. To supervisor Sam Sohay. Sam, thank you so much for joining us. Tell me, how are you feeling right now at this point? I'm pretty optimistic, you know, I've seen some results that I think people were not expecting in the favor of blues, and I think we're looking for some similar things that we maybe even saw in the city. We know that voter turnout was really high in this race. Of course people in this room are supporting Seth Coslo for county executive. Why do you think he should be the next Nassau County I think he really understands what the county needs in terms of the change, it's affordability and some of the Some of the craziness that is happening in DC and how it's filtering into our lives here in Nassau County, we cannot have that. And what would you like to bring to the town of Oyster Bay if you were to win? A sense of community. I think that's something that's so important. Community is how we can change things and once we establish. A likeness that we're all together stop dividing us, stop trying to create fissures between us, then we'll become a real community. That's my goal as supervisor. Thank you so much, Sam O'Shea, Democrat running for Oyster Bay town supervisor, of course we're watching as these results continue to come in, but for now, Rich, we'll send it back to you.

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Kavan, uh, we're looking at those results and again some of these candidates, the Democratic candidates were strong candidates, but the party once again not able to turn out the vote, not able to support those candidates. Why is that? I mean, I think it's, it's a very convoluted question. I think it's something that Democrats have been questioned with I think Mike mentioned it a little bit earlier. It's been something that's been going on, a trend that's been going on, um, I think right now Democrats got. And once again regroup, um, be able to try to speak to the issues and pulling out that base. Um, one thing that was notified tonight uh that became clear, I mean, uh, President Trump did very well in Nassau County, um, Bruce Blakeman did very well in Nassau County. um, right now Democrats have to revamp their message so that we're speaking more directly to the people about the issues that they care most about. Um, it can't be the issues that we believe that are the most important issues. It's gotta be issues that Nassau County residents care about the most. Mike Kavon mentioned Trump and Blakeman. Uh, Blakeman says he spoke to Trump tonight. I've been checking Truth Social to see if a message comes out. I'm sure it will. But what about that? I mean, this is again a purple county on paper, Democratic voter enrollment advantage, and yet Trump has been successful here. Now so too is Blakeman again. I think this is absolutely going to be a bellwether as well for the 2020. midterms because for a purple county to then have now Republicans dominating throughout, it's a testament to President Trump. It's showing his accomplishments on the issues, making sure that Republicans here on Long Island, Nassau County, dominate the issues, making sure that we're standing with the Jewish community, we're standing with Israel. We're focusing on. Cuts. John Ferretti $5 million tax cut in the 2026 budget. Jen Deenna 22% tax of tax cuts over the past three years alone. Joe Saladino just dominating town of Oyster Bay, then obviously Bruce Blakeman the top ticket with the safest county of America, no tax increases, the most comprehensive agreement with ICE to keep our community safe. The people know they can count on Republicans to stand by them when the going gets tough and specifically now with the the border with New York City we need that red wall to keep us safe. Mike, we have about 30 seconds. What is going on in Riverhead? You got me. Nobody saw this coming, you know, I mean, Riverhead is, is a, it's a more Republican town. Um, uh, Tim Hubbard seemed to be very popular, but I will just say this in the time I have left, Riverhead is a town that chews up and spits out supervisors. You could see it historically from Stark to Kassukevich to Cardinelli, uh, to Sean Walter. Uh, they, they, the supervisors do well, and this is a town that really just chews up and spits out supervisors.

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The county executive was up 130,031 votes to Koslow's 110,800 around 12:30 a.m.  

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