Dem former Congressman Tom Suozzi will face Republican Town of North Hempstead Council Member Mazi Melesa Pilip – an Ethiopian-Israeli-American former IDF paratrooper who was actually a registered Dem until recently – in the February 13th, 2024 special election to fill New York’s 3rd Congressional District seat vacated by Cameo star George Santos, the New York Times reports.
Cook Political Report’s Dave Wasserman rates the contest as a “toss-up” because everything needs to be a fucking horserace these days. Expect a shit ton of money and media coverage of a special in which both candidates were picked by what could reasonably be described with that old “cigar smoke-filled room” trope of Empire State politics. There probably was vape involved too.