Statement from NRCC Chairman Richard Hudson on #NY03: pic.twitter.com/JaqN7ahGGX

— NRCC (@NRCC) February 14, 2024

We’ll never know – in terms of actual margin – how Tuesday in NY-03 would’ve turned out if Winter Storm Kitara hadn’t dumped heavy, slushy snow across the district. We can however, with almost complete certainty, say Mazi Pilip would not have won even if it was 55 degrees and partly cloudy like it was in the area on Saturday. There’s only so much you can blame on the snow, especially when a Republican PAC literally sent out snowplows to help clear the roads.

That’s the charitable response to the MSM horserace circlejerkers who keep insisting Dem over-performance in special elections doesn’t mean shit for November, that it’s all polls polls polls and “viral” TikTok videos complaining about a fucking $18 Big Mac extra value meal on Door Dash that are really forecasting how it’s going to go. The real response is what the fuck gives YOU so much confidence that all these dipshits who couldn’t be bothered to show up for specials are so “activated” against Biden and Democrats when they’re too fucking lazy to just drive to McDonald’s to pay half that price themselves? The round-the-clock “OMG THE NASSAU SUBURBAN MOM VOTERS ARE MUCH CONCERN OVER NYC CRIME AND MIGRANT CRISIS-FLATION! IT’S GOING TO BE AN EXTRA-INNINGS NAIL-BITER!” headlines were still totally worth all the clicks, right?

Fuck you and fuck your “vibes.” We’re going with ours: The people who actually care about democracy are the ones who are going to show up in November where it counts the most, the people who cite “gambling losses” for reasons why the economy isn’t working out for them are the ones who are going to stay home and watch a Fast and Furious movie marathon on the USA Network. We’ve got election results, the shit that actually counts. You’ve got polls polls polls.