The release of Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election has ties to New York and ramifications for the state’s politics.

Here are three key takeaways about how the report affects the Empire State’s political scene:

1. New Yorkers with bit roles.

The president, of course, is the first New Yorker to win the White House since Franklin Roosevelt. And that’s led to some ancillary characters from New York politics to play a role in the saga surrounding the 2016 election. Many of the redactions in the report are due to the upcoming perjury trial of Roger Stone, the colorful New York political operative who has an on-again, off-again relationship and advisory role with Trump.

Western New York political operative Michael Caputo, who had at one point sought a Trump gubernatorial campaign in 2014, is also briefly mentioned in the report. Caputo is said to have learned of a Russian business partner based in Florida named Henry Oknyansky that he had information on Hillary Clinton, and Caputo introduced him to Stone.

Another bit player is Randy Credico, a leftist comedian and activist who is a Bernie Sanders supporter, but also has ties to Stone. Credico, who has interviewed the now-jailed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on his radio show, had much of his role redacted in the report.

2. The Republican response.

At start of Trump’s campaign,. New York Republican Chairman Ed Cox didn’t embrace the populist candidate’s plan to upend the political system. That’s since changed. Cox in a statement on Thursday cheered the report for finding no evidence the Trump campaign sought to collude with Russian intelligence to sway the election’s outcome and claimed the report exonerated the president of obstruction of justice, though the report itself is rather murky on that point, choosing to ultimately not make a conclusion. Cox went as far as to echo the president’s own call for an investigation of intelligence officials who had raised alarms over Russia’s involvement in the election.

“Meanwhile, the investigation must now turn to the conduct of intelligence and other officials who abused their positions and the truth about the phony Steele dossier must be revealed to the public,” Cox said in a statement. “As President Trump said, this should never happen again.”

3. What will swing district Democrats do?

Democratic Rep. Anthony Brindisi last year won a seat in the House of Representatives the president won by 15 percentage points. He defeated Republican incumbent Claudia Tenney, a prominent supporter of the president who had Trump come to the district and raise money for her campaign. Tenney may not be as popular as Trump in that district, but the president in 2020 will again be at the top of the ticket and the central New York seat will be see as an opportunity for Republicans to pick up.

Brindisi on Thursday gave a careful answer when asked about the Mueller report.

“I want to read the report and see what’s in there,” he told Spectrum News. “But my concern is I don’t want to spend the next year and a half getting bogged down on the Mueller investigation and Russia. We’ve got to focus on the issues I’m hearing out of town hall meetings — lowering drug costs, infrastructure spending, doing something about this opioid epidemic. Those are the things we need to focus on in Congress and not get bogged down in endless investigations.”