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John,
Last night, a Democrat outperformed Biden's 2020 showing in a special election by 25 points. And in another election last night, a Democrat outperformed Biden by a whopping 26 points, losing only by 5% in a Republican stronghold in Oklahoma that the GOP candidate should have won by at least 30%.
But the banner headline result was this: former Rep. Tom Suozzi easily flipped the congressional seat vacated by disgraced grifter George Santos, who won by 10% in 2022.
Suozzi ran an assertive and confident campaign that focused on a fair economy, fighting for our democracy, and border security—the latter issue, in particular, is one that Suozzi took head-on, highlighting that Republicans are in such disarray that they killed progress on a bipartisan border security measure that they themselves demanded only a few short months ago.
When Democrats run strong, principled, and well-funded campaigns that clearly define the issues and the stakes facing voters, they win—big.
We are now one seat closer to a majority in November. I am running against a flip-flopping, do-nothing Republican representative who helped kill the common sense, sorely needed bipartisan border security bill that my voters want.
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