Malliotakis declares victory in CD11
Incumbent Rose refuses to concede, citing thousands of mail-in ballots
COURIER LIFE, NOV. 6-12, 2020 3
BY ROSE ADAMS & MEAGHAN
MCGOLDRICK
Republican Nicole Malliotakis
declared victory over
Democratic incumbent Max
Rose in the contentious congressional
race in Staten Island
and southern Brooklyn’s
11th District on election night,
though Rose has refused to
concede.
Malliotakis won just under
58 percent of in-person votes
(136,382) in the swing district
on Tuesday night, with
97.9 percent reporting. Rose
claimed approximately 42
percent of the in-person vote
(99,224).
The Republican challenger
bested the incumbent on both
the Staten Island side and in
the Brooklyn sections of the
district, which include Bay
Ridge, Dyker Heights, Bensonhurst,
and Gravesend.
On the Rock she garnered
52 percent at 126,061 votes,
compared to Rose getting just
north of 40 percent with 97,328
votes, according to state Board
of Election fi gures.
Malliotakis’s lead was narrower
in southern Brooklyn,
where she earned 47 percent,
at 29,293 votes, while Rose got
just under 44 percent, at 27,196
votes.
Malliotakis declared victory
shortly after 10 pm with
a margin of about 27,000 votes,
and slim chances of Rose
catching up. Elections offi -
cials have processed around
24,000 absentee ballots from
registered Democrats in the
district — meaning that for
Rose to close the gap, he would
need to rake in more than
3,000 absentee votes in addition
to those 24,000 ballots.
And that doesn’t take into
account the 8,125 absentee ballots
processed so far from registered
Republicans, or the
possibility that many absentee
voters did not vote in the
congressional race.
Elections offi cials are still
working to process the mailin
ballots received in the fi nal
stretch, and will begin counting
the absentee ballots Nov. 9.
But, from outside of LiGreci’s
Staaten in Staten Island,
Rose did not concede.
“We came in tonight saying
we may not know a winner
at the end of this evening,
and that is still the case,” he
said. “At this moment there
are more than 40,000 absentee
ballots that were returned,
with potentially 10,000 more
in the mail,” Rose said in his
remarks.
Meanwhile, from a tent behind
her Staten Island headquarters,
fi ve-term Assemblywoman
Nicole Malliotakis
said her victory would “resonate
from New York’s City
Hall to the halls of Congress,”
and slammed the city and
state’s Democratic leaders for
underestimating and misunderstanding
the district.
“They don’t understand
the voters of the 11th congressional
district; they are good
and decent people who can’t be
bought and won’t tolerate being
lied to,” she said of representatives
like House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi. “We have returned
the 11th Congressional
District to the hands of the
Republican and Conservative
Party thank you for your support
and making this victory
a reality.”
The heated race for the
11th congressional district
was among the most-watched
in the country, as freshman
Rose, a Democrat, fought to
hold onto his post in a district
that voted overwhelmingly for
President Donald Trump in
2016.
A Staten Island native,
Malliotakis was fi rst elected
to the state assembly in 2010 to
represent East New York and
New Lots. Since 2012, she has
served as assemblywoman
in the 64th District covering
northeast Staten Island and a
sliver of Bay Ridge. Malliotakis
ran against Mayor Bill
de Blasio on the Republican
ticket during his reelection
campaign in 2017.
Malliotakis Tuesday credited
support from almost every
major police union for helping
put her over the top..
“It was a beautiful night
and we had all the confi dence
in her. I’m very proud of her,”
her father, George, beamed.
“Whatever I am today is because
of her and that’s the best
there is.”
Additional reporting by
Todd Maisel and Kevin Duggan
Nicole Malliotakis thanks poll workers
at Fort Hamilton High School’s
polling site in Bay Ridge on Election
Day.. Photo by Paul Frangipane
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