Emboldened by Suozzi’s win, can Democrats take back Long Island’s east end?
in eastern Queens and Nassau County earlier this month is giving Democrats a new jolt of confidence as they seek to retake the U.S. House of Representatives in elections this year — even in more challenging Republican-controlled terrain like parts of Long Island.
While the district is considered a swing seat, political observers say it’s a much tougher race for Democrats to win given the Republican shifts in recent elections and the latest redistricting process. And all that is after the Democratic candidate makes it through what could be a bruising primary. Republican Lee Zeldin defeated him and represented the district from 2014 to 2021 before giving up the seat to run for governor in 2022.
“It may take burning millions of his friends’ money for Avalon to learn NY-1 has a history of rejecting out-of-state and Manhattan elitists from both sides of the aisle, who parachute into the district attempting to buy a seat in Congress,” said Kiley. “Of all the swing districts in New York, LaLota’s is probably the least swingy. But it still swings,” said Larry Levy, executive dean forThe Legislature’s new boundaries for the 1st Congressional District remove a portion of Democratic voters from Huntington while adding more Republican voters from Brookhaven and Eastport into the district.
Ellie Dougherty, a spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said the DCCC does not weigh in on primary contests. But she noted that the 1st Congressional District is on the organization’s list of “Districts in Play,” and called LaLota “one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the country.”
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