Democrats Win Special Election, Flipping Republican Seat in New York’s 3rd District

The Democrats snatched George Santos’ seat from the Republicans on Tuesday in a special election to fill his vacant seat in New York, according to US media reports.

Former Democratic Congressman Tom Suozzi regained the seat he left in 2020 when he ran in the New York gubernatorial primary.

The race for New York’s 3rd District seat was presented by both parties as a laboratory to test political strategies ahead of the November elections with messages on immigration, abortion and public safety that they hope will attract suburban voters.

The victory reduces the slim Republican majority in the House and gives Democrats a much-needed victory in the Long Island suburbs of New York City, where the GOP showed surprising strength in recent elections.

His victory will likely reassure Democrats that they can do well in suburban communities across the country, which will be critical to the party’s efforts to retake control of the U.S. House of Representatives and re-elect the President Joe Biden.

Santos was not in the race, but it was a campaign issue

George Santos was expelled from the House of Representatives in December, midway through his first term, after winning a district that had been Democratic, in part, by falsely portraying himself as a success story: the son of working-class immigrants who He became a wealthy Wall Street dealmaker.

But Santos’ life stories were later exposed as fabrications, and he was indicted on multiple charges, including accusations that he stole money from Republican donors, charges to which he has pleaded not guilty.

During the special election campaign, Suozzi defended not having found out Santos’s history when he first ran in 2020, saying that at the time he was not a real candidate, had barely raised any money and was rarely seen on the campaign trail. electoral.

“I only saw him on Zoom once and he was kind of a strange person,” Suozzi told PIX 11 News.

Instead, Republican candidate Pilip, who supported Santos in 2022, has now said she did not know him well and was one of the people he lied to.

“We didn’t know anything about him. As soon as we found out he was lying, I was one of the first to tell him he had to resign,” said the Republican.

2024-02-14 03:11:00
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