ALBANY, N.Y. — With just a handful of votes separating them, the candidates in a New York congressional race that focused on President Barack Obama’s economic policies say they know the race isn’t over.
With all 610 voting precincts in the 20th Congressional District reporting, Democrat Scott Murphy leads Republican Jim Tedisco by just 65 votes out of more than 154,000 cast. The two are vying to replace Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, who was appointed to the U.S. Senate to succeed Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
There are more than 10,000 absentee ballots still to be counted.
Tedisco said he thinks he’ll eventually have a “tremendous victory.” Murphy said his campaign, win or lose, proved the naysayers in Washington wrong.
Republicans have filed a lawsuit requiring all paper ballots be impounded.
