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Gripper pointed to Cuomo’s record working with Republicans in the state Senate to sideline Democrats in the upper chamber as another topic that deserves to be discussed in the mayor's race.

The bill has yet to pass the Senate, but one senior White House official told NPR it would be an “all-out advocacy effort” to get the bill through the upper chamber.

Republicans would need five more Democratic senators to support the policy to get it through the upper chamber.

Days later, Sen. Bryan Hughes, the bill’s author in the upper chamber, said, “Women are being harmed, women are being hurt by these pills,” on the Senate floor, just before a vote to pass the legislation.

Members of the Senate, the upper chamber, are appointed and do not run for election.