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wind at their backs. i m john berman, brianna is off, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins here this morning. wind at their backs, we will see come november, i guess. a little. they re hoping wind at their back this morning. what democrats are looking at the reason they might feel this way is based on the results of special elections here in new york. cnn projects that democrat pat ryan will win the battleground 19th district, a district that joe biden narrowly carried in 2020 but republicans felt very good heading into this special. they were hoping they could flip this. abortion rights became the central issue in this race, democrats made it so, much more on this in just a moment. also in new york congressman jerry nadler easily defeated he is a powerful committee chair he easily defeated powerful committee chair carolyn maloney in a bitter race that really got to the redirstrictin struggles the democrats had in new york. in florida democratic ....
His senate seat. former republican governor and now turned current democratic congressman charlie crist will try to unseat the powerful incumbent republican governor ron desantis. chris will join us live on new day in just a moment. first we will go to jason carroll who is live in new york with more on the results from last night, jason. reporter: yes, when you were talking about the 19th i don t think that went as many people, kaitlan, were thinking it was going to go. just to set the lay of the land, this is a district upstate, i think many might describe it as being somewhat conservative leaning as of late, this was a district and a campaign where really national issues took center stage during that campaign. you had the republican marc molinaro who wanted this to be a campaign about the economy, about rising inflation, rising crime, on the flip side of that you had the democrat pat ryan who said this is a campaign about a woman s right to choose. ....