Jeffrey MervisLast month, chemist Nancy Goroff failed to unseat Representative Lee Zeldin (R–NY) and become the first female science Ph.D.
in the U.S. Congress. But the 52-year-old Democrat is still hoping national politics will loom large in her future.Goroff waited until after New York state election officials completed counting absentee ballots on 4 December to concede defeat, by a margin of 55% to 45%, in her race against Zeldin.
The three-term congressman got more votes than President Donald Trump, who won the Long Island district for the second time, and Goroff trailed President-elect Joe Biden.
In retrospect, Goroff says, “It was clear that this district was not as much in play as we had thought.”The former chair of the chemistry.