SARATOGA SPRINGS—After not sleeping in the last 40-hour campaign sprint, Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco declare before a throng of campaign supporters that his campaign to succeed Kirsten Gillibrand in Congress will be decided by paper ballots.
He currently trails Murphy by 59 votes. The result cannot be fully determined before April 13.
“While we can’t declare victory just yet,” he said during a speech that started just before 11 p.m., “I believe that when the smoke clears, we will have won a tremendous victory.”
He then thanked campaign volunteers both local and national, including R.N.C. Chairman Michael Steele and Rudy Giuliani. The speech took a turn for the emotional when Tedisco thanked his family: his wife Mary Song, his mother Beatrice, and his deceased father Nicholas and brother, Joey.
