In case you missed it, Pelosi won the vote with 220 votes. She needed 218. How would have Scozzy’s vote changed anything, especially since Nanny likely had a few more Rat votes up her sleeve just in case.
You’re the one suffering from strange delusions.
If a Repub had won in NY23 then Cao could have forced to toe the party line and the vote could have flipped to the other side.
A morale boasting win in Ny23 would have enabled Republicans to got more blue dogs to our side but a embarrassing loss in a overwhelming Republican district put a brake to that.
In politics every seat matter and Dems fight hard for it even in Republican strongholds, you are deluded if you think NY23 did’nt matter in the health care debate.