The contest between Democrat Suozzi and little-known Republican Mazi Pilip was seen as a bellwether for November’s presidential election
Tom Suozzi, a Democrat, won the New York congressional seat vacated by the disgraced Republican George Santos on Tuesday night, in a boost for Joe Biden ahead of the presidential election.
In what had become an increasingly bitter campaign, the inexperienced Republican candidate, Mazi Pilip, attempted to tie Suozzi to the immigration situation at the US-Mexico border.