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Democrats Notch A Win In The Battle For The Suburbs

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

News, Politics

4.620.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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In this late-night installment of the 538 Politics podcast, the crew breaks down the results of the special election in New York's 3rd Congressional District. Democrat Tom Suozzi beat Republican Mazi Pilip in a race to replace former Rep. George Santos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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in the words of George Santos there is no such thing as diva down there is only

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diva down, there is only diva up.

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Hello and welcome to this late night special election reaction

0:46.5

edition of the 538 Politics Podcast I'm Galen Druk. It's about a quarter past 11 and the race in New York's third congressional district

0:56.2

has already been called for Democrat Tom Swazi according to the latest tallies right now with about 85% of the expected vote in

1:06.5

Swazi leaves Republican Mazzie Pillup by about 10 points although we expect that to

1:11.7

narrow as more of the election day vote comes in somewhere

1:15.8

in the range of six or eight points, although by the time you're listening to this podcast,

1:20.1

you may well know what that margin looks like.

1:21.9

Either way, Swazi won pretty decisively.

1:25.7

It looks like he will end up beating the limited polling

1:28.4

that we had in the district, which showed about a three or four point

1:31.7

lead going in. So we're going to talk about it. And here

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