{"id":31851,"date":"2024-02-14T13:32:56","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T13:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=31851"},"modified":"2024-02-14T13:33:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T13:33:33","slug":"democrat-tom-suozzi-wins-new-york-race-to-succeed-george-santos-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/31851","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Tom Suozzi wins New York race to succeed George Santos in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New York: Democrat Tom Suozzi won a special election for a U.S. House seat in New York on Tuesday, coming out on top in a politically mixed suburban district in a victory that could lift his party\u2019s hopes heading into a fiercely contested presidential election later this year, AP reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Suozzi defeated Republican Mazi Pilip to take the seat that was left vacant when George Santos, also a Republican, was expelled from Congress. The victory marks a return to Washington for Suozzi, who represented the district for three terms before giving it up to run, unsuccessfully, for governor.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear how long his next stint on Capitol Hill will last, as a redistricting process unfolds that could reshape the district. But for now, the result narrows the already slim Republican majority in the House. And it provides Democrats a much-needed win in New York City\u2019s Long Island suburbs, where the GOP showed surprising strength in recent elections.<\/p>\n<p>Suozzi stressed his campaign trail theme of bipartisan cooperation in a victory speech that was briefly interrupted by protestors criticizing his support of Israel.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere are divisions in our country where people can\u2019t even talk to each other. All they can do is yell and scream at each other,\u201d he said, acknowledging the demonstrators. \u201cThat\u2019s not the answer to the problems we face in our country. The answer is to try and bring people together to try and find common ground.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe way to make our country a better place is to try and find common ground. It is not easy to do. It is hard to do,\u201d Suozzi told supporters at his election night party in Woodbury.<\/p>\n<p>Suozzi\u2019s win will likely reassure Democrats that they can perform well in suburban communities across the nation, which will be critical to the party\u2019s efforts to retake control of the U.S. House and reelect President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York: Democrat Tom Suozzi won a special election for a U.S. House seat in New York on Tuesday, coming out on top in a politically mixed suburban district in a victory that could lift his party\u2019s hopes heading into a fiercely contested presidential election later this year, AP reported. Suozzi defeated Republican Mazi Pilip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31854,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31851\/revisions\/31854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}