I formally invite him to offer progress or get out of the way.

He’s not the oldest Dem in Congress but he’s definitely one whose demonstrating how insulated many Dems are from the current mood on the street.

George Santos.

The portion of his district that is in New York City is not going to vote for Mamdani anyway (Douglaston, Bayside/Bay Terrace, Whitestone), and may not even go for Cuomo. Some of those idiotic Whitestone districts will probably vote for Sliwa. The Long Island/ Nassau County parts of his district (obviously not relevant to the Mayor's race) are also fairly conservative nowadays, so Suozzi will likely have a bit of a slugfest in 2026.

In other words, it makes no difference if he says this, and it's probably a net gain for 2026. It's not going to hurt Mamdani at all, since he will lose those areas anyway. I liken this to letting a vulnerable member vote against a bill if you already have the votes elsewhere. It's not a great look, but it's also not particularly damaging.

All House seats are local. Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good here.

Suozzi is literally calling for AOC and others to leave the Democratic Party.

Not only is that a hardcore 'purity test' but it would be ruinous for our Party if adopted as SOP.

Start demanding (from a leadership level) elected Dems (of the typology who centrists to conservative Dems like Problem Solver Suozzi and others happen to disagree with) leave (or worse, be tossed out of) the Democratic Party and watch our national vote tallies plummet, especially with the under 45yo younger cohorts.

I like you, but we're going to disagree on this. He has to hold NY3. If you'd ever walked a precinct in Bayside, you'd know this is the route to that. I think it has zero national effect at all.

Talk about big tent party coalition sabotage. It's Democrtic Party voter suppression writ large.

Have a good one.

Suozzi is co-chair of the Problem Solvers caucus, who sabotaged Biden’s BBB.

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Hmmm...

I think the progressive wing has more viable answers right now, but a loyal centrist would be a warning flare to New York Democrats of limited loyalty and a good step towards having a party ready to lead when we get the chance.

I've been a registered Democrat since 1965 and and a Socialist since about 1961 and I still believe that how I vote is up to me.

who will announce his party switch right after the next election.

on transgender rights, your op Ed about Dem should work with Trump, your involvement with “problem solvers” caucus, siding with Rs on the Laken Riley bill, your opposition to NY redistributing in response to Rs plan, your cesure of Al Green and more make me wish you would choose to leave the D party. But people elected you just as people elected AOC and Mamdani - so STFU.

Go fuck yourself

PS Trump is the most socialist president we've had. Indeed, he is starting to resemble Stalinist Russia. Pray he doesn't start coming up with 5 year plans . . .

OMG a city run grocery store, versus the US government buying up Intel, or dictating what is acceptable to private universities, law firms, media outlets, corporations. . . What type of socialism do you want?

One of the very few that also sent a Democrat to the House.

The young will not vote for him next time around.

You want to completely lose the youth vote? Do his plan.

is not a winning strategy.

And I liked how the country turned out because of his policies.

Margaret Sanger, Eugene Debs and more...

. . . and what do they have to show for it?

They are the most stunningly entitled bunch I've ever seen, who seem to think their own very failure is what entitles them to continue to run the show! Fuck that!

It is a city of neighborhoods and many are conservative neighborhoods. A loud mouthed jerk makes a statement for attention and street creds and people on DU go nuts. Attacking democrats who have nothing to do with the city as centrist and non progressive is counterproductive. Let’s leave the little man in the gutter where he belongs. We have got to fight to take our country back ,not get involved with city politics.

we can talk about how fucking stupid his ideas are. I don't live in NYC and don't give a shit about who he represents. I hope they like him. But when he starts talking about the party as a whole and what should be done, the party as a whole as the obligation to point, laugh, and tell him he's dumb.

He should be mocked and shamed but don’t tar the Democratic Party. He won his district and that’s all. The conversation devolved into centrist Democrats and getting rid of the old guard because they won’t let the progressives through. This is a New York problem, let them work it out.