Posted on 02/13/2024 7:26:06 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Former Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi has won a closely watched special election for a vacant House seat once held by former Republican Rep. George Santos, who was expelled from the chamber in December.
The Associated Press projected that Suozzi would defeat Republican county lawmaker Mazi Pilip, to win back his old job.
With the GOP hanging on to a razor-thin majority in the House, national Republicans and Democrats poured big bucks into a race in suburban New York City where immigration and border security, crime, and abortion were the top issues, and where the election was seen as a bellwether ahead of the all-but-certain November White House rematch between President Biden and former President Donald Trump. The Long Island district held for a decade by Democrats was flipped by Santos in the 2022 midterms. But Santos was kicked out of Congress less than a year into his tenure, after he was exposed for lying about his background and indicted for a slew of financial crimes.
Suozzi, who represented the district for six years before running unsuccessfully for governor, repeatedly tied Pilip to Santos, as well as to former President Donald Trump.
"Who knows what she really stands for? She's George Santos 2.0. It's the exact same nontransparent, phony baloney, just trying to get votes instead of saying what you really think," Suozzi charged on the eve of the election.
And Suozzi, a former mayor and county executive, argued that Pilip - who is in her second term as a county lawmaker - "is a far-right wing extremist" who is "totally in line with Mike Johnson and Donald Trump ."
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Never under estimate the Republicans ability to screw themselves.
With Kevin McCarthy retiring, Mike Johnson is holding on to the Speakership by a very slim thread.
It’s even possible that the Speakership might be thrown over to Hakeem Jeffries and with this, total control by the Democrats of the legislative branch.
This country is facing very bad times.
With Kevin McCarthy retiring, Mike Johnson is holding on to the Speakership by a very slim thread.
It’s even possible that the Speakership might be thrown over to Hakeem Jeffries and with this, total control by the Democrats of the legislative branch.
This country is facing very bad times.
Easy win.
No wonder voters don’t bother to vote for Repukes.
Democrats never do this kind of crap to each other.
Looser Republicans fall all over each other to “Stand on principle”, and damn the consequences for the country.
How’s that been working out for us?
The GOP is worthless. They are purposely giving away house seats. That seat in NY and the last one in FLA were easily winnable.
Yay!!! We were moral!!!
Wait.
My guess: Probably 25% of Republicans, had no idea that Santos was out of office, and, there was an election.
Republican Party e-mail campaigns are as Spam or Junk - including Trump’s.
And no newspapers, for a lot of people.
Time to end this farce and illusion that we have a choice.
” That seat in NY and the last one in FLA were easily winnable.”
Florida? The last special election for the U.S. House in Florida was a year ago in an overwhelmingly Democrat district.
You may be thinking of the special election for the Florida *state* House, the result of which means nothing given the GOP’s huge advantage in numbers in the FL House. A Democrat won a special election by a small margin in a slightly Democrat district. Whoopee. The sky isn’t falling, at least not based on THAT result.
So many here applauded sicko Gaetz as he nuked our slim majority.
Never under estimate the Republicans ability to screw US.
Foccus on getting this seat in November.
Sone protestor got up on the stage at the victory celebration to accuse Suozzi of supporting genocide. He got pushed off the stage and took quite a tumble.
Did the Republicans even try to seriously win this seat?
I just read that she’s a democrat.
So... there was no republican in this race.
Let’s have a do-over with a real republican.
What do you think?
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