Jessica Piper, Ally Mutnick, and Bill Mahoney report at Politico that high turnout from Democrats in the special election for the 19th Congressional District fueled Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan's victory. Ryan will fill out the final weeks of Antonio Delgado's term. Ryan won with 51.1 percent of the vote, about 1.5 percentage points ahead of Joe Biden’s 2020 performance in the district, but several points behind Delgado’s margin that year. But Politico reports that, "In six of the seven counties fully inside the district boundaries, the share of Democratic voters who cast a primary ballot was higher than the share of overall registered voters who voted in the special election — suggesting Democrats turned out at higher rates than Republicans or independents." Democrats are mostly crediting the Supreme Court, which lets states ban abortion, with the higher turnout. “People are seeing every election matters,” said state Sen. Michelle Hinchey, a Democrat from Saugerties. “The decisions over the last few months have really reengaged people and worked them up to what is at stake right now. And it’s not business as usual.” Republicans see something else, pointing to Ryan underperforming Delgado. “Any Democrat celebrating holding a seat they won last cycle by double digits is in for a rough November,” said Michael McAdams, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. “We will continue to remind voters Democrats are responsible for historic price increases, surging violent crime, and a southern border that has been completely overrun by drug cartels and human smugglers.” Read the full story at Politico.