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 victory in the Queens and Long Island district avenged a year of humiliation unleashed by the seat’s 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 November’s general election, especially over the influx of migrants at the border and in New York City.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    If not legislation, then how about procedure votes?

    They’ve shown that even with a majority they can’t get anything done themselves. They keep scapegoating their own Speakers because of it.

    If I’m not mistaken the ouster of McCarthy from the Speakership was a bi-partisan effort with democrats and MAGA fringe GOP voting for it.

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      9 months ago

      The impression I got of McCarthy’s ousting was that some democrats would have voted to keep him as speaker had he had the balls to ask them. But he didn’t, so the democrats did what they were expected to do and voted to oust the guy from the other party.

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      9 months ago

      bi-partisan effort with democrats and MAGA fringe GOP voting for it.

      Well it was 208 Democrats + 8 GOP. That’s not even 4% of the GOP in the House. I guess you could call that bipartisan if you want. Then there were a bunch of failed speaker nominations before Mike Johnson.