Bronx Rep. Engel to Skip Aisle Handshake with Trump at Joint Session Address

New York Rep. Eliot Engel is breaking with a longstanding tradition in Washington tonight, saying he will not be shaking President Donald Trump’s hand when he enters to address a joint session of Congress. Engel, who represents parts of the Bronx and Westchester County, said today on the floor of the House he will be putting an end to the tradition tonight as a form of protest against the Trump adminstration.

Cuomo fundraising outpaces possible rivals

… Tom DiNapoli reported raising $606,000 in the same period. He has $1.4 million in cash on hand. Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, Cuomo’s 2014 Republican opponent and a likely repeat contender in 2018, reported raising $1 million for a $2.5 …

Several Democrats to skip inauguration

… York City Democratic representatives are among those who say they will not be going to the inauguration. Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino and GOP chairman Doug Colety are planning to attend the event. In spite of the spat, and the ensuing …

Who will lead the Democrats out of the wilderness?

A recent article reporting that some of Hillary Clinton’s supporters are searching for a glimpse of her as she wanders the woods near her Westchester County, New York, home seems a good signal to declare that the Democrats’ wilderness years have officially begun. The final Democratic hopes to change the election’s outcome expired Monday when the electoral college certified Donald Trump as the next president.

Who will lead the Democrats out of the wilderness?

A recent article reporting that some of Hillary Clinton’s supporters are searching for a glimpse of her as she wanders the woods near her Westchester County, New York, home seems a good signal to declare that the Democrats’ wilderness years have officially begun. The final Democratic hopes to change the election’s outcome expired Monday when the electoral college certified Donald Trump as the next president.

Congressman Democrat Eliot Engel: When He Will Support and When He Will Oppose the New President

Congressman Eliot Engel, the powerful 15 term senior Democrat whose 16th District covers the northern Bronx and southwest Westchester County, told me in a recent interview conducted in his Riverdale office that the election of Donald Trump came as a total surprise to him. “Like many others, I just didn’t think it possible,” he said,” that a candidate who had made so many insulting remarks about so many different groups of people could have been elected as President of the United States.”

Congressman Democrat Eliot Engel: When He Will Support and When He Will Oppose the New President

Congressman Eliot Engel, the powerful 15 term senior Democrat whose 16th District covers the northern Bronx and southwest Westchester County, told me in a recent interview conducted in his Riverdale office that the election of Donald Trump came as a total surprise to him. “Like many others, I just didn’t think it possible,” he said,” that a candidate who had made so many insulting remarks about so many different groups of people could have been elected as President of the United States.”

Trump children face scrutiny over fundraisers

… charity fundraising that came with any access to those people. After former Bill Clinton told a local Westchester County newspaper Trump “doesn’t know much,” Trump shot back on Twitter saying Clinton “doesn’t know much” about getting voters to the …

Bill Clinton Says Trump Won Because He Galvanized Angry White Men

Bill Clinton held nothing back while speaking with reporters from The Record-Review, a weekly paper that caters to the clusters of towns in Westchester County where the Clintons reside. The former president associated Hillary Clinton’s presidential defeat to FBI Director James Comey, but also said Donald Trump tapped into the angry white man vote, which secured his presidency.

Bill Clinton: ‘One thing’ Trump knows ‘is how to get angry, white men to vote for him’

Bill Clinton did not mince words when asked by the editor of a small New York newspaper for his thoughts on President-elect Donald Trump. The editor of the Bedford-Pound Ridge Record Review, a community newspaper in Westchester County, New York, bumped into Clinton at a local bookstore last week, where the former president proceeded to give candid answers about a series of election-related topics to a group that had gathered around him.