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New York Special Election: Tom Suozzi Wins House Seat Vacated by George Santos – The New York Times
Posted: February 14, 2024 at 11:00 pm
Tom Suozzi, a former Democratic congressman, won a closely watched special House election in New York on Tuesday, narrowing the Republican majority in Washington and offering his party a potential playbook to run in key suburban swing areas in November.
His larger than expected victory in the Queens and Long Island district avenged a year of humiliation unleashed by the seats former occupant, George Santos, and stanched a trend that had seen Republicans capture nearly every major election on Long Island since 2021.
Mr. Suozzi, 61, fended off the Republican nominee, Mazi Pilip, in a race that became an expensive preview of many of the fights expected to dominate Novembers general election, especially over the influx of migrants at the border and in New York City.
A well-known centrist, Mr. Suozzi distanced himself from his party, calling for harsher policies at the border and vowing to work with Republicans to fix a broken immigration system. Polls suggested the independent approach helped cut into Ms. Pilips advantage on the issue, as Democratic super PACs deluged her with ads attacking her as anti-abortion.
In the end, the race also became an old-fashioned local contest over turnout as a rare Election Day snowstorm blanketed Long Island. The 11th-hour twist most likely helped Democrats, who had turned out in larger numbers during early voting despite Republicans vaunted Nassau County machine.
With 93 percent of votes counted, Mr. Suozzi had won 54 percent of the vote compared with 46 percent for Ms. Pilip, according to The Associated Press.
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Democrat Tom Suozzi to replace republican George Santos in U.S. House of Representatives – 13newsnow.com WVEC
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Democrat Tom Suozzi defeating republican Mazi Pilip in a special election to replace republican George Santos.
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Published: 1:25 PM EST February 14, 2024
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Democrat Tom Suozzi wins special election to fill George Santos’s House seat. Here’s why it matters beyond New York. – Yahoo News
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In a big win for House Democrats, Tom Suozzi won the special election in New York's 3rd Congressional District on Tuesday. His victory over Republican Mazi Pilip means he'll fill the House seat of disgraced former Republican Rep. George Santos.
Heres why the special election took place and why it matters beyond New York.
Santos was kicked out of the House of Representatives last December in a bipartisan vote following the release of a report from the House Ethics Committee that found there was substantial evidence he had violated campaign finance laws. Santos became the sixth House member ever to be expelled.
NY-03 includes the Long Island suburbs and a small portion of Queens. Voters decided Tuesday that Suozzi will fill Santoss seat to complete the 11 months remaining in his term.
Suozzi and Republican Mazi Pilip went head to head for Santoss seat.
At the time the Associated Press called the vote, Suozzi had 59% of the vote, while Pilip had 41%. Pilip conceded and congratulated Suozzi. Both candidates are likely to face off again this year in November since they have both committed to run for full congressional terms.
Suozzi, a moderate Democrat, had the benefit of name recognition since he previously represented NY-03 for six years. He gave up his seat when he ran for governor, but lost to Kathy Hochul, in 2022.
Pilip is a county lawmaker and Ethiopian immigrant who migrated to Israel when she was 12. She served in the Israel Defense Forces before moving to the U.S. While a registered Democrat, she was elected to the Nassau County Legislature as a Republican.
Since Suozzi flipped the seat for Democrats, Republicans now have an even thinner majority over Democrats in the House (219-213). That means Republicans can only afford two defections from their GOP colleagues on key votes at a time when they have struggled to maintain unity on key legislation.
House Democrats now gain even greater leverage and could force Republicans to work across the aisle in order to pass legislation.
On a national level, Suozzi's win in NY-03 could provide a messaging guide for Democrats competing in similar districts in the presidential election this November, especially when it comes to issues like immigration and border security. As New York deals with a massive influx of migrants, Suozzi held a firm line on the issue and even called on President Biden to temporarily close the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Democrat Wins Special Election for George Santos’ House Seat Mother Jones – Mother Jones
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On Tuesday,Democrat Tom Suozzi was elected to replace indicted former GOP Rep. George Santos of New York in a special House election widely viewed as a bellwether contestahead of the presidential election.
Suozzi, who represented New Yorks 3rd Congressional District for three terms before stepping down in 2022 to run for governor of the state, will reclaim his old House seat following Santos expulsion nearly two months ago. Santos brief career in Congress was filled with seemingly endless scandal: He now faces 23 federal criminal charges, including money laundering, wire fraud, and lying on congressional disclosure forms.
The lead-up to election night in the swing district was notably tense, with Suozzi holding a narrow lead in the polls against his opponent, Mazi Pilip, a Nassau County legislator whom Suozzi referred to as Santos 2.0. According to a recent poll from Emerson College, Pilipa former Israel Defense Forces paratrooperwas more popular among voters on issues like Israels war in Gaza and border security; Suozzi was more trusted on abortion and the Ukraine war.
The special election comes after significant Republican gains in New York, a state that traditionally votes blue. In recent years, several New York Republicanshave found success at the polls by taking a tough-on-crime stance. As my colleague Noah Lanard wrote in late 2022:
Nationally in this years midterms, Republicans mostly failed in efforts to weaponize rising crime rates. But in New York, they were remarkably successful. Heading into the election, 28 percent of New Yorkersrankedcrime as their top prioritymore than any other issuein contrast, only 5 percent of voters listed crime or guns as their top concerns in anational survey that month. The year before this election, Republicans had used the same crime messaging to great effect on Long Island, where moderate Democrats lost in races they were initially favored to win.
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Not an Ordinary Special Election, and Yet a Typical Result – The New York Times
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As I prepared to write this ahead of Tuesdays special election to replace George Santos in New Yorks Third District, two completely different outcomes seemed easy to imagine or explain away.
One was that the results would be excellent for Democrats, like most special elections this year. If their strength was just about the low turnout, it might not say much about their appeal to the wider electorate this November.
Another was that the result would be excellent for Republicans, as New York and Long Island have been for Republicans over the last few years. If so, it might just be another New York romp, with little meaning for the rest of the country.
Either way, the special election could not tell us much about President Bidens chances in the general election.
In the end, it was a triumph for the Democrats. Tom Suozzi, a former Democratic representative, defeated the Republican Mazi Pilip by just under eight points (54 percent to 46 percent) as of this writing.
The result is significant in one sense: It puts Democrats one seat closer to retaking the House, and thats no small matter when Republicans entered the night clinging to a thin majority.
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Senate Democrat calls GOP hostage-taking in debt ceiling deal making dangerous: This cannot be the norm – The Hill
Posted: May 30, 2023 at 12:09 am
Correction: The headline and first paragraph of this story has been updated for clarity.
Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), president pro tempore of the Senate, on Sunday criticized GOP “hostage taking” in the debt ceiling negotiations as “dangerous” and said it can’t become “the norm” for such situations.
“I look forward to carefully reviewing the legislative text and discussing this with my colleagues. However, it can’t be overstated just how dangerous this kind of hostage-taking of our nation’s credit is to our economy and standing around the world,” Murray said on Twitter, sharing an Associated Press article about the agreement in principle reached by the two leaders.
“This cannot be the norm,” she added.
Democrats have repeatedly criticized congressional Republicans for not agreeing to a “clean” debt ceiling hike that would raise the nation’s borrowing limit unconditionally.
President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Saturday said they’d reached a deal in principle that would raise the debt ceiling for two years and apply new federal spending caps in that same window.
The legislative text isn’t out yet, which has many lawmakers sidestepping questions about whether they’ll back the agreement, which has to clear the House and Senate to take effect.
The tentative deal comes after tense negotiations as the White House pushed for a clean debt ceiling increase and Republicans pushed for a hike tied to spending cuts.
The deal also comes just days ahead of the June 5 deadline which Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said is the cutoff point past which the nation will run out of money to pay its bills. If the U.S. doesn’t deal with the debt ceiling in time, the country would go into default, which Yellen and others have warned could be catastrophic for the economy and detrimental to the country’s standing on the world economic stage.
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Scoop: Dems told to say debt ceiling bill rejects GOP’s "extreme demands" – Axios
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House Democrats' messaging guidance on the newly released debt ceiling bill instructs them to say the legislation rejects "extreme demands" from Republicans, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: It is a look at how Democrats plan to counter claims by House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) that the bill is a total GOP win that contains no concessions for the other side.
Driving the news: Axios obtained a copy of the messaging guidance sent to House Democrats' offices on Monday morning by the Democratic Policy & Communications Committee.
The backdrop: The guidance largely codifies the case House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has been making about the deal.
What we're watching: How conservative House Republicans, who have been agitating against the bill, react to these arguments.
The state of play: Democrats will need to persuade enough of their members to vote for the bill to make up for lost votes on the GOP side.
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Debt Ceiling Is First Big Test for Hakeem Jeffries, the Top House Democrat – The New York Times
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Just six months into his tenure as the House minority leader, Representative Hakeem Jeffries faces a formidable challenge: selling his fellow Democrats on the budget deal negotiated behind closed doors between President Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy, without much input from his end.
Negotiators reached a deal on Saturday to raise the debt ceiling and avert a potential default that could come as early as June 5, but Mr. Jeffries had no idea how many votes he might ultimately have to deliver for the package because he had heard nothing from Republicans about how many defections they expected once the measure hit the floor.
The situation is particularly galling to Democrats because, while it is hard-right Republicans who have pushed the nation to the brink of default by refusing to raise the debt limit without spending cuts, they are all but certain to oppose the compromise that has been hammered out. Even if Republicans meet their threshold of winning over a majority of their members for the package, it will probably still require backing from scores of Democrats to pass.
I can say with a great deal of clarity that if dozens of Democratic votes in the House will be necessary, we cannot reach an extreme resolution in this instance in order to satisfy the needs of right-wing ideologues, Mr. Jeffries said in an interview.
The struggle over the debt limit is the first major political and policy fight in 20 years in which House Democrats have not been led into the fray by someone named Pelosi. Mr. Jeffries, a 53-year-old, six-term lawmaker from Brooklyn, succeeded Representative Nancy Pelosi of California, the Democratic leader since 2003 and two-time speaker, in January without opposition. Now he is getting something of a trial by fire, with the global economy and the retirement accounts of millions of Americans on the line.
Of the four congressional leaders, Mr. Jeffries has the least power, but he might also have the greatest challenge, because it is clear that House Democrats will be essential to pushing the debt limit bill over the finish line from their minority position in the House. Though Mr. Jeffries had little direct sway in the talks, Mr. McCarthy is well aware that he cannot hope to prevail if House Democrats reject it en masse.
Progressives previously signaled that they were not inclined to support any deal that cut domestic spending or imposed stricter work requirements on public benefit programs.
While he has not been in the room, Mr. Jeffries has been in regular conversation with the White House about what is transpiring, with Jeffrey D. Zients, the White House chief of staff, serving as a major point of contact. Mr. Jeffries credited the administration with engaging with a wide array of House members to prepare them for what is ahead.
Theyve been open, honest and accessible with House Democrats across the ideological spectrum, he said.
House Democrats have grumbled that the White House remained too quiet as the talks progressed, not wanting to knock them off track, while Mr. McCarthy and his lieutenants gathered regularly with reporters, gaining some advantage on the public relations front. Mr. Jeffries moved to fill that gap in recent days with a series of appearances he used to assail far-right Republicans, whom he accused of trying to crash the economy for political reasons.
Theyve decided that either they are able to extract extreme and painful cuts that will hurt everyday Americans or crash the economy and benefit politically in 2024, he said. That is unreasonable, its cruel, its reckless, and its extreme. But it is the modern-day Republican Party in the House of Representatives.
Mr. Jeffries, who has so far had a working relationship with Mr. McCarthy, was not ready to extend that criticism to the speaker.
Its not clear to me that it includes McCarthy, he said, referring to the group of Republicans he viewed as hoping for a politically advantageous default. I think McCarthy has a very difficult job in terms of corralling the most extreme elements of his conference. But the extreme elements have said they dont believe House Republicans should be negotiating with the hostage they have taken.
As Mr. Jeffries navigated the debt limit showdown, senior House Democrats said he was able to draw from a reservoir of good will and trust from his membership.
Hes clearly on top of these issues, said Representative Richard E. Neal of Massachusetts, the veteran lawmaker and top Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee. He understands the politics of where we are, and I think there is pretty broad support in the caucus for the posture hes adopted.
He responds, he answers questions, and he tells you the truth, said Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee.
Although it appears that a deal has been struck, Mr. Jeffries has one potential trick up his sleeve should that fall apart and a catastrophic default appear imminent. He and his team quietly prepared a special petition to force a debt-limit increase vote if all else fails. All 213 Democrats have now signed the petition, leaving them five short of the 218 votes needed. He called this past week for moderate Republican lawmakers to bridge the gap.
Unfortunately, so-called moderates in the House Republican Conference have failed to show the courage necessary to break with the most extreme wing of their party, he said. Now is the time to do it.
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