The first real road test of Ronna Not-Romney McDaniel’s stupid “Bank Your Vote” initiative in a contested Congressional election is not going so well as Dem elections egghead Tom Bonier reports that the first wave of early mail-votes returned in New York’s 3rd District special election are +22 percent from registered Dem voters. This compares to an early vote that was +13 percent D in 2022 when George Santos won the district, meaning that it’s possible Ronna’s efforts to sell Republicans to just suck it up and vote early and by mail actually might have even kind of backfired.
In related news a new Emerson College survey – the first in this special election – finds Dem Tom Suozzi leading Republican Mazi Pilip 45 to 42 percent among all respondents in the North Sore Long Island district, a lead for the Dem that expands to Suozzi 51 – Pilip 37 among “very likely” voters.