Just to point this out on Santos...something to think about.
He ran in the 3rd district (Long Island, Nassau, and NE Queens). After the primary, local news outlets had plenty time to review his history and find these ‘problems’. They basically made no effort.
What does that indicate? I think literally everyone in the newsprint and TV journalism trade...in this district...just looked the other way, and allowed what was a Democrat in Republican ‘clothing’ to win. The public in the 3rd district wanted to send a message, and they were faked-out enough to think Santos was their messenger to send to DC.
He’s a one-term guy. The joke? It’s on the voters of the district, and half of the joke is that journalism is completely dead in that area.
Santos had previously run and lost in 2020 in the same district. So the media and the political apparatus had more than TWO YEARS to go through his background.
>What does that indicate?
I think the other thing it indicates is that local news is near death and whatever of it is alive doesn’t care about politics.
Tip O’Neill once said “all politics is local” and that has changed. Now all politics is national. Therefore it doesn’t interest local news.