Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi (51.3%) won re-election in New York’s Third Congressional District — which covers the northern half of Nassau County and a smidge of Queens territory — over the Republican Party’s “just a tad short” alternative offering to George Santos, Michael LiPetri (48.7%).
Suozzi had vacated the same seat he held for three terms when he sought to challenge Gov. Kathy Hochul back in 2022. He subsequently won a Special Election earlier this year to reclaim the seat after Santos’ expulsion from Congress and will serve the D.C. post on behalf of NY-3 he knows all too well for the next two years, at the least.
LiPetri, a former state assemblyman, made this race closer than projections foretold — one of the closer, down-to-the-wire face-offs in the vast sea of battles taking place across the nation on Election Tuesday.
The Associated Press declared Suozzi the winner just after 1 a.m. the following morning.
“I think that we all recognize that the people of the United States of America and the people of my congressional district are sick of extremism,” Suozzi told his supporters cheering him on from the Garden City Hotel. “They’re sick of people attacking each other all the time. They want us to work together and get things done, and that’s the only reason I won this race, because the people are resonating with that message."