[JrsyJack]

I don’t think it’s funny to lose a seat for a year. There is no short term benefit for us in the loss of NY-23. We can HOPE the loss is only for a year. We HOPE that the party leadership learned a lesson from this and it APPEARS they have, but we won’t know that for sure until we see a change in their process, strategy and ideology that is more closely aligned with the base.

While I agree that a loss is not good in reality we are talking about a 79 seat Dem majority versus a 80 seat dem majority. The pain until the general election will be mitigated by the lessons learned.

[bustinchops]

I agree the loss will be worth it if our statement in NY-23 has the result we hope for, and I agree that as a difference between 79 vs. 80, it doesn’t mean much. But a loss is NEVER as good as a win, and a three-state win would have sent an even more powerful statement to both parties than the two-state win. Certainly a conservative win in NY-23 would have sent an even stronger message to the pub leadership than the loss did, even though our shift in support from scuzzy to Hoffman sent a loud and clear message we aren’t going to take RINOs anymore.