The DLCC Candidate, Suozzi, and the Ensuing Equality Critique: An Ethical Anomaly
That is not a lot when compared to what was spent in NY, but it can go a long way in a statehouse race. The DLCC is pledging to spend $60 million in 2024 on statehouse races across the country, the most it ever has.
Suozzi is a known quantity on Long Island. He’s a former Nassau County executive and is a former congressman. Democrats essentially billed the race as a moderate, adult in the room vs. an extremist, MAGA candidate.
Democrats hammered Pilip’s ethics, likening her to Santos. The widely run ad begins with the same story. A new name. It then shows Pilip and says she’s “about to embarrass us again” and goes on to drop the oppo file about “unpaid bills from her family’s business” and that she “also owed more than $100,000 in unpaid taxes to the IRS, even filing a false financial disclosure. … She’s an ethical nightmare.
The Philadelphia suburbs have had more trouble in the last two years, and neither Trump nor Adams can blame the 2016 Democrat-Biden special election
You don’t want to read too much into special elections, but it’s been special after special after special that Democrats have won since the Dobbs ruling overturned the guaranteed right to an abortion nearly two years ago.
According to the voters in the area, they wish to have help for their families, want control over their own bodies, and wish to be able to chart their own path in life.
Democrats also retained control of the state House in Pennsylvania, holding onto a seat in the Philadelphia suburbs, where the winning candidate campaigned, in part, on abortion rights.
So it’s understandable that Republicans would want to try to use it. Democrats tacked to the middle to defend themselves on this issue. Suozzi said the border needed to be secured, called for a bipartisan compromise and supported the bipartisan congressional deal that was scuttled by Trump and the hard right. Pilip came out against the bill.
The busing of migrants who crossed the border illegally in New York is one of the hot-button issues in the state. Adams called on the Biden administration to do more when it came to border security. Biden gets just a 29% approval for his handling of the issue, and Republicans have a 12-point advantage on which party would do a better job with it, according to the latest NPR poll.
This race was dominated by GOP attacks on immigration. Republicans spent over $8 million on campaign ads in the race to win a special congressional election. They hammered Democrat Tom Suozzi on immigration on the airwaves. Republican Mazi Pilip even held rallies near a makeshift tent city in Queens that houses migrants.
Education, crime and now immigration. The issues have not changed the fortunes of the Republicans in the suburbs. With former President Donald Trump as the likely standard bearer again for the party, their job is made even harder. According to the latest poll, almost two-thirds of voters in suburban areas don’t like Trump and, in a head- to-head match, Biden leads Trump by 16 points.
What gets thinner than a whisker? That’s essentially Republicans’ current majority in the House — only three seats. You think governing has been hard for House Republicans? It got harder.
Tuesday’s special election results have some important consequences, but they are not always a sign of what will happen in future elections.
The Republicans were hoping that if they voiced concerns over immigration they would be successful in the special election to replace the disgraced former congressman.