The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/category/news/election2020/page/3/)
Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) declared victory in his reelection campaign for New York’s 23rd Congressional District at a small election night gathering in Corning around 11 p.m. Tuesday night. A delay in results caused by a high volume of mail-in ballots, however, means Reed and Democratic challenger Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 won’t know for several days the official and final results of their second head-to-head race.
In the race between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, Cornell’s left-leaning campus favors the Democratic candidate, and many say they fear a Trump reelection. But as prelims accumulate and fall move-out draws closer, many are also preoccupied.
Fear and shock gripped Cornell’s campus when President Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election. In the days that followed, members of a stunned student body gathered in solidarity and held “cry-in” events responding to the surprise result.
Because there have not been any institution-level decisions about Election Day classes, some students will be logging onto classes, while others will have a break for the day.
For two months, long-time residents and Tompkins County GOP members Nancy and Jim Crawford ’78 have been running a Republican storefront right off of heavily trafficked Route 13 in Downtown Ithaca with support from the Tompkins County Republican Party.
Whether this is your first or fifth presidential election, here’s what you need to know about voting on Nov. 3.
With early voting for the presidential election having ended on Sunday, Tompkins County said it’s prepared to process the next wave of ballots.
Compiled here is a list of the candidates down the ballot in Tompkins County.
Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) held a free speech rally before marching to City Hall to raise an American flag with Mayor Svante Myrick ’09, who rebuffed the invitation.
Democratic candidates, including former Vice President Joe Biden, and left-leaning PACs received $913,064 in donations, while only $12,775 of that went to Republican candidates and conservative political action committees.