Just as late tallies of mail ballots in several battleground states wiped out President Trump's leads and wound up electing Joe Biden to succeed him, the counting of absentee ballots in New York has snatched victory from at least four Republican candidates for State Senate, three of them backed by a Police Benevolent Association-led coalition of law-enforcement unions.
Those reversals of Election Night results have turned what loomed as a major disappointment for Senate Democrats into a scenario in which they are certain to preserve 40 seats in the 63-member body and may pick up two more that would give them a veto-proof majority.
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