[4][5] Running a platform in line with gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin's views, the Kings County Republican party made serious inroads in the borough, increasing their share of the state assembly seats from a shared district with Staten Island, held by a member of the Staten Island Republican Party, to include 3 purely Brooklyn seats.

[8][9] The speaker of the Assembly, the Democrat Carl Heastie organized an investigation which concluded that Chang owned an apartment in Manhattan, but he had fulfilled all residency requirements to run in the 49th District.

[10] These victories and tight races came despite Brooklyn reporting a record number of Democratic voters, and was credited with winning Kathy Hochul a second term over Zeldin.

The losses seriously damaged the morale of the Brooklyn Democratic Party, whose "reformer" wing, which focused on increasing voter turnout, was pinned for the blame in the newly purple districts.

[4] While the Brooklyn Eagle also noted an uptick in Republicans among the borough's Russian American population and also attributed a large portion of the party's success to its "common sense policies", and keeping former President Donald Trump at a healthy distance, neither endorsing nor opposing him, much to the dismay of the local chapter of the New York Conservative Party, which has refused to endorse any Republican candidates in the borough since 2016.

The video resulted in LaBella slumping heavily in polls, receive several calls by community leaders to drop out, and caused Chairman Ted Ghorra to urge him to backtrack.

As such, he is facing a healthy primary with two candidates, Anna Belfiore-Delfaus who largely has the support of the Kings County Republican Committee, and Avery Pereira, a local community organizer.