Republicans are hammering Democrats on the migrant crisis. Will it work?

The Buffalo News editorial board called her “frankly, crazy.”

At an early voting site in Amherst, a Democratic-leaning suburb, a handful of voters said Friday they voted for Poloncarz because of his management during difficult emergencies, including the pandemic and a snowstorm that killed 31 people last year. The office of the provincial executive is responsible for raising taxes, maintaining infrastructure, and providing other essential – and often apolitical – services to residents.

Garrett Hodgson, 48, a Democrat, said the migrant crisis “is not something that is under Poloncarz’s control.” Sharon Carlo, 78, a former Republican who recently registered as a political independent, said the Republican ads targeting the allegations against Mr. Poloncarz were “none of our business.”

In Suffolk County, an area more densely populated than 11 states, Democrats say they see signs that the Republican fever of 2021 and 2022 has cooled, especially on crime. But strategists from both parties said Republicans are still well positioned to win back the county executive seat, putting them on the brink of a remarkable takeover of nearly every major office on Long Island.

“Each cycle builds on the next,” said Jesse Garcia, the architect of Republicans’ multiyear strategy to target Democrats, who control Albany and New York City, over the state’s bail law, rising prices and, in increasingly, their approach to the influx of migrants. .

Edward P. Romaine, 76, the longtime Republican supervisor of Brookhaven, the county’s largest city, is running for county council against Dave Calone, a Democrat and former prosecutor and businessman who has never held elected office.