Two centrist, pro-Israel Democrats representing swing House seats on Long Island rode to easy victories on Tuesday, as a suburban Republican in upstate New York with close ties to the Jewish community lost his seat.

Reps. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Laura Gillen (D-NY) coasted to victory in suburban Nassau County, where a fifth of households have at least one Jewish member. The pair spent much of the cycle distancing themselves from New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani while stressing their support for the Jewish state and for measures to enhance safety for Jewish institutions. 

Coming off the socialist wave in the Democratic primaries in June, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s candidates for Congress and the state legislature coasted to victory on election night.

Former City Comptroller Brad Lander, state Assemblymember Claire Valdez and grad student Darializa Avila Chevalier easily carried their heavily Democratic seats after Mamdani supported them for the party’s nomination three months ago. Lander, who will represent a largely upper-middle-class district spanning Brooklyn and Manhattan with a large Jewish population, defeated Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) earlier this year after relentlessly hammering the incumbent for his support for U.S. military aid to Israel and relationship with AIPAC.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul — along with fellow Democrats Attorney General Letitia James and State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli — easily repelled her Republican challenger, a dominant performance that raises questions about her future relationship with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Hochul, a moderate Democrat who has shown strong support for Israel, easily overwhelmed her Republican opponent, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, with the Associated Press calling the race moments after polls closed at 9 p.m. Blakeman, who is Jewish, sought to win moderate Democratic and independent votes by harping on the sitting governor’s close relationship with the democratic socialist Mamdani.

A poll of Jewish voters who voted early in Michigan, conducted in late October, found a significant drop in support for Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed as compared to other state Democrats.

The poll, commissioned by The Jewish Majority, found that 57% of Michigan Jewish voters who voted early backed El-Sayed, as compared to 78% who backed Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jocelyn Benson — a 21-point gap. Seventy-five percent of voters surveyed identified as Democrats.

Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) won reelection on Tuesday evening in coastal South Florida by five points, 52%-47%, with 95% of the vote counted, despite GOP efforts to redraw the seat to favor Republicans.

Moskowitz, among the most vocal pro-Israel Democrats in the House, leaned into his efforts to support the Jewish state and combat antisemitism to maintain support among the district’s substantial Jewish community.

Pennsylvania Sens. Dave McCormick (R-PA) and John Fetterman (D-PA) condemned the planned “Boycott Ride” in Philadelphia this weekend that aims to force Jewish and Israeli-owned businesses out of the city and has sparked alarm in the Jewish community.

Local Jewish groups condemned the rally, which will take place the day before the anniversary of Kristallnacht, as blatantly antisemitic and intended to intimidate the Jewish community.

Jewish and pro-Israel groups offered mixed reactions on Tuesday to President Donald Trump’s Election Day announcement that the U.S. and Israel had agreed months ago to wind down U.S. aid by the end of the year, with several expressing concerns or reservations about the premature termination of the 10-year memorandum of understanding on U.S. aid to Israel.

The implications of Trump’s announcement are somewhat unclear, particularly for the 2027 appropriations bills currently making their way through Congress, which include the expected $3.8 billion in aid and cooperative missile defense funding to Israel. 

Palantir CEO and co-founder Alex Karp made an appearance at the resting place of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement’s longtime leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, in Queens, N.Y., on Tuesday, where he posed for a selfie with Rabbi Mendy Uminer.

Uminer, who leads Chabad of Chestnut Hill, Mass., shared the photo on X, writing, “Only at the Rebbe’s ohel — resting place do you bump into the legendary Alex Karp.”