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Welcome back to this episode of Power and Politics, everyone. I'm Amanda Board and joining us now is a local candidate who flipped a district red on election night. Republican state senator elect Steve Chan will represent Brooklyn 17th district after walking away with 55% of the vote and senator elect Chan. Congratulations on your win. And thanks so much for being with us this week here on Power and Politics. Very much, Amanda. It's uh it's a pleasure to be here. So, what have these past few days since election night been for you? Has the win truly sunk in yet? Um It kind of has, you know, because it's been incredibly busy in the last couple of days. Uh, much, even much more busier than, than when I was actually campaigning. So the work has already begun taking us back to the campaign though. What were some of your motivations to get involved in politics and run in this race? Because as I understand it, this was your first time running for higher office? Oh, yes. Yes, it is. Uh I, I've always been a very active member of the community over here. I've been living here for 47 years and, uh, you know, I've seen it through tough times and good times and, and lately, you know, I, I see a neighborhood in the community and decline and I just couldn't stand it anymore and I decided to do something about it, you know, I fought crime in the street as an NYPD police officer for 27 years. And, uh, I was a part of the crew that, that in the early to the late nineties made, uh, New York a safer place and we cleaned up. It was really, really, uh, heaven. Uh, and, uh, I saw the, the, the slow deter deterioration of our quality, quality of life. Uh, so, you know, I wasn't happy with it and I decided to, to do something about it and I'm a little too old to be running around the streets as a carpet. And so I decided to fight crime from Albany and public safety. Obviously a big concern for so many across Brooklyn and across the city to that point. What priorities do you plan to push for once you are sworn in up in Albany? Ok. So I talk to the neighbors a lot over here. Uh, I'm all over the neighborhood and it's always the same things, uh, that I hear we want our neighborhood to be safe. We want the public transit to be safe. We don't want congestion pricing. We wanna make trips to grocery grocery stores. Uh, a little better experience where we don't have to, you know, ask people to get, retrieve a locked item uh for us and, and we want low prices. We want, you know, we want to keep uh lower taxes on properties. We want good quality of life and, and so that we can uh just live our lives in a peaceful manner to get things done. Of course, you will probably have to work across the aisle with the Democrats up in the state legislature. How do you plan to do that? Well, absolutely. Ok. So I know the Democrats have been downplaying the, the removal of the super majority as in insignificant. But I personally believe that's gonna give me a, give us the Republican conference a little bit more leverage in bargaining for certain things that we're looking for. Um And, and we have to let people know that it is time to bring back a little bit, a little bit of common sense. Uh Brooklyn is South Brooklyn is definitely turning red from my campaign. I realized that a lot of folks are coming up to me and telling me that they're sick of, uh you know, the far left policies of the Democratic Party and they want change to that point in the presidential race. Kamala Harris won New York, but by a smaller margin than other Democrats in years past. So what do you make of that shift to the right in what has been traditionally a blue state. Well, I think it's, uh it's reality. Uh, in the course of my campaign, I went to uh many different neighborhoods and, you know, my constituency here in district 17 is approximately 300,000 or so, maybe 350,000. And uh the sentiments of the people are, they're just sick of the far left uh policies of the Democratic Party, the socialist uh uh characteristics of it And, and they're turning red. I personally had a lot of voters come to me and switch parties during the course of my campaign. So it's real, uh the, the, you know, South Brooklyn is turning red. I want to think a little bit more locally and some of the big issues that have impacted your district. And what comes top to mind to me is that plan to bring a homeless shelter to Bensonhurst. It is a city issue. But is there any action that you plan to take at the state level to address the shelter specifically or overall the homeless crisis across the city? Ok. So, uh first off, I, I want, I want to let the people know that uh our community is absolutely not against homeless people that, you know, we feel for them, we know they need help. But our homeless programs have uh all but failed and, and why I don't, I just don't understand the sense of reasoning and none of my neighbors and community understand the sense of reasoning of why we have to, why we must put a homeless shelter right where they want to put it right in front of a subway station where, uh, young Children, our wives, our, our, our work and elderly people have to go about their ordinary businesses every day. And me as an experienced police officer, I know how much one of these homeless shelters, how much, uh, it can affect the quality of life around the neighborhood. There are better options. Uh We have to revamp the programs. Let's let's help these homeless people, let's have help our homeless people. Uh And uh uh once I get up to Albany, uh I'm sure that I can find um other elected officials in both parties where we share common vision and we stand on common ground and may, maybe we'll uh we'll work with them and uh introduce legislation to regulate these homeless shelters a little bit better and uh limit to where they can be built and the capacity of them and such. And then lastly from me, Senator Elect Chan, you said that the days since election night have already been quite busy, perhaps busier than the campaign itself. What do the days from now until inauguration day? Look for you. What work do you plan to get done in the couple of months to come? Well, the, the first thing I like to do is I, you know, I, I welcome everybody to call me you know, uh, my campaign promise is that I'm not a politician. I'm everybody's neighbor, Steve and I want them to call me. I wanna continue to meet people. I want to hear all their concerns. I wanna see what they want fixed. Uh, so, uh, I, I, I'm looking forward to, uh, continue to meet some of my neighbors, some of my, uh, some of the members of my community from corner to corner, that's what I plan on doing. And Senator Elect Steve Chen, once again, congratulations on the win. Hope to have more conversations like these to come while Republicans won big. So, did a statewide push to protect abortion rights. We'll have more power in politics in just a couple of minutes. Stay with us.

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Welcome back. The voting numbers from New York show that President elect Donald Trump came closer to winning the state than any other Republican in decades. The city's board of elections says within the five boroughs, Harris took home 68% of the vote. But that's less than what President Biden and Hillary Clinton claimed in 2020 2016 election results say Trump performed 13 points better in New York than he did in 2020 New Yorkers. We spoke to say they believe key issues led to the closer margins with the buses coming in and bringing in, I guess all the migrants and the homelessness already that exists in New York. People are anxious, they listen to Donald and they were afraid, oh, people are coming to take our jobs and so they felt like, yeah, Donald Trump will be the best. According to reports. Trump is the first Republican presidential candidate in two decades to be within 20 points of winning New York state. A number of ballot proposals were also voted on this week and news calls, Julia Joseph spoke with advocates about what the passing of proposition one means for New Yorkers and reproductive rights. The lingering effects of overturning Roe versus Wade has affected millions of women all over the country. And of course, right here in New York post dos, we knew we needed to protect abortion rights advocate, Donna Lieberman feels it's the beacon of light for New Yorkers who are struggling to cope with the presidential election results. It protects New Yorkers right to get abortion. It protects against discrimination based on who we are, where we were born, how old we are? Whether we have a disability and over 4 million turned over their ballots. Voting yes on passing prop one into law ingraining their reproductive freedoms at the state level. For the foreseen future. It can't protect us against a nationwide abortion ban. But those guys said that they believe in abortion should be regulated by the states. So it will protect New Yorkers and it will protect other people who come to New York proposition one. Lieberman calling it a powerful anecdote in result to the 2024 presidential election results showing that local elections can lead to national change. That was Julia Joseph reporting and that's all for this week here on power and politics on news 12. Thanks for being with us through election night and thanks for watching today.

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