This Long Island House Race Could Be a Bellwether on Election Night

New York’s 1st District, home to Long Island’s upscale Hamptons as well as middle-class neighborhoods and rural communities, was in Democratic hands from 2003 until Republican Representative Lee Zeldin’s victory in 2014. Republicans could keep the district this year even as Democrats are poised to pick up GOP-held seats across the country.

Zeldin won re-election by 16 percentage points two years ago, and has since aligned himself with President Donald Trump. He has hosted events with former Trump allies Steve Bannon and Sean Spicer, and has backed Trump on calling for an end to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election and urging a probe of alleged misconduct by the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation.