Democrat cruising to victory in George Santos’ district

[The Real timschochet 6,769]

This was supposed to be tight but it isn’t. This may be a message for November…

[The Psychic Observer 498]

Another Maga L

[The Real timschochet 6,769]

Both parties really spent a lot of money on this election. 

[Mark Davis 398]

Good chance both the House and Senate flip, so we end up with one to each side, just the opposite chamber as this cycle.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,439]

Samtos winning was the surprising thing in that district, not a guy like Suozzi. Totally expected.  The north shore of LI is full of rich liberals. They need gardeners and housekeepers. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,439]

Mendez remains in his senate seat. Democrats DGAF. Power is all that matters. 

[The Real timschochet 6,769]

3 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Samtos winning was the surprising thing in that district, not a guy like Suozzi. Totally expected.  The north shore of LI is full of rich liberals. They need gardeners and housekeepers. 

It wasn’t totally expected. Republicans spent a ton of money. The GOP candidate was totally MAGA. Trump expected her to win. 
 

 

[The Real timschochet 6,769]

Most of the Democratic ads were about abortion. Almost all of the Republican ads were about the border. 

[EternalShinyAndChrome 4,107]

Just now, The Real timschochet said:

It wasn’t totally expected. Republicans spent a ton of money. The GOP candidate was totally MAGA. Trump expected her to win. 

Yes, it was absolutely expected. That's liberal country, not conservative country.

These weak attempts at gaslighting and fever. Dream wishes has really gotta stop from you.

[The Real timschochet 6,769]

Just now, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Yes, it was absolutely expected. That's liberal country, not conservative country.

These weak attempts at gaslighting and fever. Dream wishes has really gotta stop from you.

The polls had the Democrat up by 2-3 points, within the margin of error. He’s going to win by 13

[Mark Davis 398]

Genocide! lol

[Pimpadeaux 2,406]

Good. Time to drain the MAGAturd swamp.

[The Real timschochet 6,769]

18 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

It wasn’t totally expected. Republicans spent a ton of money. The GOP candidate was totally MAGA. Trump expected her to win. 
 

 

I’m wrong about Trump; he avoided endorsing her. He didn’t want to be blamed in case she lost. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,439]

Good news. Biden is going to win NY. 

[seafoam1 3,031]

2 hours ago, The Real timschochet said:

The polls had the Democrat up by 2-3 points, within the margin of error. He’s going to win by 13

Expected. Unless you're a dope. 

[The Psychic Observer 498]

8 hours ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Yes, it was absolutely expected. That's liberal country, not conservative country.

These weak attempts at gaslighting and fever. Dream wishes has really gotta stop from you.

Republican peter king owned that district for 15 years, and Santos was just elected there 2 years ago.

[RLLD 4,230]

Works for me.    Let them put people in place who will end up harming them.  Unfortunately, this is the only way they will learn.

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,351]

Republicans once again prove to be morons removing Santos was idiotic

 

[Engorgeous George 2,331]

3 minutes ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

Republicans once again prove to be morons removing Santos was idiotic

 

Doing the ethical thing and accepting adverse collateral consequences is honorable.  Not doing so would be moral cowardice.

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,351]

4 minutes ago, Engorgeous George said:

Doing the ethical thing and accepting adverse collateral consequences is honorable.  Not doing so would be moral cowardice.

so you dont agree in the rule of law?

I think every man deserves protection under said law, and he was not tried or convicted of anything

they are all corrupt scam artists, Santos is no different

[zsasz 369]

1 hour ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

Republicans once again prove to be morons removing Santos was idiotic

 

No.  It actually showed the country that they care a TINY bit about ethics.  That they've tethered themselves to Donald Trump is idiotic.  

They could have rolled to an POTUS victory this year with a more common sense candidate.  Instead, they're giving Biden 4 more years.  

[iam90sbaby 2,611]

Santos is a Democrat and Republican in name only. You can tell by his fagg0ts thick black rimmed glasses. Libtards love those glasses.

[The Psychic Observer 498]

Good luck in November Magas.

[iam90sbaby 2,611]

Yall think this zesty mfer is a AF Republican? This is the type of repub Raiders likes 

[iam90sbaby 2,611]

1 hour ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

Republicans once again prove to be morons removing Santos was idiotic

 

[RLLD 4,230]

1 hour ago, RaiderHaters Revenge said:

so you dont agree in the rule of law?

I think every man deserves protection under said law, and he was not tried or convicted of anything

they are all corrupt scam artists, Santos is no different

I have little tolerance, nor leeway, for those in power.  We should leave the allowance for criminality to the left.....they have this well-covered.  Let's not allow ourselves the luxury of becoming less, and becoming some liberal clown who tolerates this based on political ideology.....fock Santos....

[The Psychic Observer 498]

 

[squistion 2,203]

 

[seafoam1 3,031]

15 hours ago, The Real timschochet said:

Most of the Democratic ads were about abortion. Almost all of the Republican ads were about the border. 

The democrat message:

Women, kill your kids so we can make room for the millions of illegals flooding through our border. 

[cyclone24 1,913]

15 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Mendez remains in his senate seat. Democrats DGAF. Power is all that matters. 

This. 

[squistion 2,203]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/14/new-york-special-election-suozzi-democrats/? 

WaPo Opinion:  New York’s special election sends a message to the Democrats

It is easy — and tempting — to over-interpret the results of special elections, which take place outside the normal political season rhythms and are therefore showered with outsize amounts of money and attention.

But Democrat Tom Suozzi’s solid victory on Tuesday in the New York election to replace disgraced Republican George Santos does hold some lessons for his party — should it decide to heed them.

The Long Island district, which includes Nassau County and a slice of Queens, is historically Democratic but has been trending Republican in recent years. This is exactly the kind of upscale suburban area that President Biden and down-ballot Democrats are going to have to win in November.

In the near term, the flip of one House seat also adds to the headaches of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and makes the idea that Republicans “control” the chamber even hollower. So narrow is his majority now that he can only afford to lose two members of the dysfunctional Republican conference on any given vote.

Republicans were stunned at the result. Public polls and their own internal ones showed the New York race closer than it turned out to be (nearly complete results had Suozzi winning by almost eight points). “No one saw it coming last night,” former congressman Peter T. King, who once represented much of the district, told me. “I thought this was definitely a red wave.”

Suozzi’s victory continues a streak of Democratic victories in special elections. These contests “are instructive, but not always predictive,” former congressman Steve Israel, who once represented the district and who also led the Democrats’ House campaign operation, told me on Wednesday morning.

For one thing, Suozzi is a centrist and familiar to the voters: He has served as a congressman, Nassau County executive and mayor of Glen Cove. His GOP opponent was second-term Nassau County legislator Mazi Pilip, a virtual unknown. On TV, Democrats outspent Republicans by nearly 2 to 1.

Nevertheless, Suozzi’s messaging on the issues is worth highlighting. Though Nassau County is thousands of miles from the Mexican border, illegal immigration dominated the race. That is because people in the district have been “waking up several times a week in real time to see busloads of migrants arriving in New York City,” Israel said. Pilip, herself an immigrant who was born in Ethiopia, contended: “Joe Biden and Tom Suozzi have brought the border crisis to our front door.”

Suozzi’s smartest move was to lean into the issue, even as Republicans tried to pin it on him with attack ads. He described it as a crisis of “epic proportions” and called upon the Biden administration to close the border temporarily. “The problem has been foisted on the city of New York, the state of New York, and other states by the federal government because they failed to address this issue for such a long period of time,” he said.

When Pilip came out against a bipartisan deal to spend more than $20 billion to toughen border security and step up deportations — echoing former president Donald Trump’s criticism that it didn’t go far enough — Suozzi accused her of joining “the extreme members of the Republican Party and the bosses in the House” and putting partisanship over solving the problem.

For too long, Democrats preferred to dismiss the chaos that was taking place at the border or contend that the right was ginning up the issue. These days, though, Democrats have a solid argument to make that it is Republicans who are not taking it seriously enough, using the crisis as political fodder for the election rather than doing what is possible to fix it now.

Further underscoring this was the effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which passed the House by a single vote shortly before polls closed in New York after failing a week before. It was a stunt and an abuse of one of the most solemn responsibilities that the Constitution gives the House of Representatives. Mayorkas stands no chance of being convicted in the Senate for simply carrying out the policies of the president.

There is no formula for victory that works everywhere, but Suozzi’s win has given congressional Democrats a template for how to handle an issue that Republicans will be pressing hard in swing districts across the country this year. It also provides, as Israel pointed out, “a playbook for President Biden.” Refuse to cede the ground and stand ready to hit back.

[edjr 6,592]

Is that dunce Adams still mayor? Who gives a chit. 

[zsasz 369]

16 hours ago, The Real timschochet said:

The polls had the Democrat up by 2-3 points, within the margin of error. He’s going to win by 13

Democrats in PA races have also won 6 special elections (one last night) in the past year for local offices.  

People just don't particularly care for the doses of Republican idiocy they're being subjected to these day. 

[zsasz 369]

43 minutes ago, squistion said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/14/new-york-special-election-suozzi-democrats/? 

WaPo Opinion:  New York’s special election sends a message to the Democrats

It is easy — and tempting — to over-interpret the results of special elections, which take place outside the normal political season rhythms and are therefore showered with outsize amounts of money and attention.

But Democrat Tom Suozzi’s solid victory on Tuesday in the New York election to replace disgraced Republican George Santos does hold some lessons for his party — should it decide to heed them.

The Long Island district, which includes Nassau County and a slice of Queens, is historically Democratic but has been trending Republican in recent years. This is exactly the kind of upscale suburban area that President Biden and down-ballot Democrats are going to have to win in November.

In the near term, the flip of one House seat also adds to the headaches of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and makes the idea that Republicans “control” the chamber even hollower. So narrow is his majority now that he can only afford to lose two members of the dysfunctional Republican conference on any given vote.

Republicans were stunned at the result. Public polls and their own internal ones showed the New York race closer than it turned out to be (nearly complete results had Suozzi winning by almost eight points). “No one saw it coming last night,” former congressman Peter T. King, who once represented much of the district, told me. “I thought this was definitely a red wave.”

Suozzi’s victory continues a streak of Democratic victories in special elections. These contests “are instructive, but not always predictive,” former congressman Steve Israel, who once represented the district and who also led the Democrats’ House campaign operation, told me on Wednesday morning.

For one thing, Suozzi is a centrist and familiar to the voters: He has served as a congressman, Nassau County executive and mayor of Glen Cove. His GOP opponent was second-term Nassau County legislator Mazi Pilip, a virtual unknown. On TV, Democrats outspent Republicans by nearly 2 to 1.

Nevertheless, Suozzi’s messaging on the issues is worth highlighting. Though Nassau County is thousands of miles from the Mexican border, illegal immigration dominated the race. That is because people in the district have been “waking up several times a week in real time to see busloads of migrants arriving in New York City,” Israel said. Pilip, herself an immigrant who was born in Ethiopia, contended: “Joe Biden and Tom Suozzi have brought the border crisis to our front door.”

Suozzi’s smartest move was to lean into the issue, even as Republicans tried to pin it on him with attack ads. He described it as a crisis of “epic proportions” and called upon the Biden administration to close the border temporarily. “The problem has been foisted on the city of New York, the state of New York, and other states by the federal government because they failed to address this issue for such a long period of time,” he said.

When Pilip came out against a bipartisan deal to spend more than $20 billion to toughen border security and step up deportations — echoing former president Donald Trump’s criticism that it didn’t go far enough — Suozzi accused her of joining “the extreme members of the Republican Party and the bosses in the House” and putting partisanship over solving the problem.

For too long, Democrats preferred to dismiss the chaos that was taking place at the border or contend that the right was ginning up the issue. These days, though, Democrats have a solid argument to make that it is Republicans who are not taking it seriously enough, using the crisis as political fodder for the election rather than doing what is possible to fix it now.

Further underscoring this was the effort to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, which passed the House by a single vote shortly before polls closed in New York after failing a week before. It was a stunt and an abuse of one of the most solemn responsibilities that the Constitution gives the House of Representatives. Mayorkas stands no chance of being convicted in the Senate for simply carrying out the policies of the president.

There is no formula for victory that works everywhere, but Suozzi’s win has given congressional Democrats a template for how to handle an issue that Republicans will be pressing hard in swing districts across the country this year. It also provides, as Israel pointed out, “a playbook for President Biden.” Refuse to cede the ground and stand ready to hit back.

Right. Either it is serious enough for Republicans to put aside most of the other things that gets their panties in a bunch to solve it....or it's just another episode of political gamesmenship.  Republicans crapping the bed in Congress and not pushing to get this done (mainly by Trump commanding them to not get things done) shows that they don't take it seriously.

Democrats will win by just hitting the public with "Yeah...I guess we should have paid more attention to this....we will be better about it going forward".  

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,351]

2 hours ago, zsasz said:

No.  It actually showed the country that they care a TINY bit about ethics.  That they've tethered themselves to Donald Trump is idiotic.  

They could have rolled to an POTUS victory this year with a more common sense candidate.  Instead, they're giving Biden 4 more years.  

 

2 hours ago, iam90sbaby said:

Yall think this zesty mfer is a AF Republican? This is the type of repub Raiders likes 

 

2 hours ago, iam90sbaby said:

 

2 hours ago, RLLD said:

I have little tolerance, nor leeway, for those in power.  We should leave the allowance for criminality to the left.....they have this well-covered.  Let's not allow ourselves the luxury of becoming less, and becoming some liberal clown who tolerates this based on political ideology.....fock Santos....

I don’t like santos nor republicans. I don’t even know what he did allegedly. What I do know is he has never been tried or found guilty of anything criminal 

as to RLLD. It’s belief like this bro that has allowed this country to fall. It’s what they do nonstop to trump.  Being ok with the santos issue means you would have been ok with Gase being removed as well

To 90s. I have zero idea of his beliefs nor how he votes on issues. What I know is he has an R next to his name so that’s what I’m going on. Meanwhile goldfinger had nothing happen to him.