The Democratic, Long Island , New York wonder guy is riding a political wave ….
His return to his US House seat has been looked at as a pathway for Democrats, bogged down with a invisisble party President, to climb back in the polls….
He’s an unlikely oracle for the Democratic Party. Until recently, Suozzi — a former mayor, county executive, congressman and two-time candidate for governor — was enjoying life as a recovering politician.
His career had ended on a down note in 2022 when he came in third in New York’s Democratic gubernatorial primary and then left Congress, paving the way for Democrats to lose his seat to Santos and pissing off a lot of people in his own party in the process. But Suozzi ultimately moved on and seemed to find comfort with a different, non-political identity.
And then Santos was exposed as a fraud and booted out of Congress.
At that point, his party turned to him to make things right and Suozzi decided he wasn’t quite done with politics after all.
Suozzi not only won the race, but his campaign seemed to show Democrats a roadmap for taking back purple suburbs where immigration dominates as theissue and Joe Biden is an anchor.
Suozzi was given a hero’s welcome on the floor of the House from Democrats this week — and he even managed to attract some Republican applause with his speech celebrating compromise and warning both parties about the perils of being a slave to the base….
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