On MSNBC this a.m., suggested NY Democrats performed badly in the midterms because of the state’s bail laws: “That’s why we are losing this election.” New York City Mayor Eric Adams argued on MSNBC Thursday morning that Democrats performed badly in the state because of a 2019 law that reduced the use of bail for lower-level criminal charges. (Crime has risen nationally since the pandemic, and New York remains a relatively safe state, with the 10th-lowest crime rate in the country.)

Lee Zeldin and the winning GOP congressional candidates have relentlessly hammered Democrats for a spike in crime since 2020. Republican candidates such as gubernatorial nominee Rep. Despite losing all of New York’s statewide races, Republicans did better than usual, as the electorate told pollsters that crime and inflation were their top two concerns.

“A lot was happening that AOC or others may not know we were doing,” he said.īut it wasn’t just about redistricting and the ground game, or lack thereof. He added that voter-mobilization efforts targeted voters who do not consistently turn out in order to maximize their return on investment. He said the party “had an extensive field program,” with 750 volunteers working out of 50 field offices. Jacobs denied that the party failed to run an energetic campaign, and he argued that progressives who criticize suburban and rural Democrats’ approach are out of touch with the reality of those districts. Julia Salazar, who represents Brooklyn, a borough that has the most Democrats of any county in the state, told Yahoo News. “A lot of folks who don’t even necessarily identify with the left were like, ‘Why haven’t I received a single piece of mail? What is the state party doing?’” state Sen. And it’s deeply frustrating that our party didn’t even put up a fight.” “We were literally left to die on a vine here. Andrew Gounardes, a Democrat from the area, told the City. “Where the hell was the state party?” state Sen. In southern Brooklyn, for example, two longtime Assembly Democrats lost to Republicans, and local Democrats attributed the result to the party's failure to mobilize its voters. This stuff isn't golden but it's an obvious way to make yourself known beyond TV ads. I still have no idea why the Hochul campaign, with $40 million raised, has not done mailers, phone banks, or text banks. One of those future members of Congress, George Santos, said he attended then-President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., that preceded the U.S. Both districts had voted for Joe Biden in 2020, and yet both elected a Republican candidate. Kathleen Rice and Tom Suozzi - did not run for reelection.

Jacobs, who was appointed by Cuomo, hails from Nassau County, the suburban Long Island area in which Democrats lost two House seats whose incumbents - Reps. The subsequent court-drawn maps were much more favorable to Republicans, costing Democrats a slew of House seats: the four they lost, and one currently held by a Republican that they would have picked up, according to a data analysis of election returns by the City, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet. The initiative’s defeat led to maps that had been drawn by the Legislature - which would have left Republicans with as few as four of New York’s 26 congressional seats, instead of the 10 they will now have - being overturned by four Cuomo appointees to the state Court of Appeals (two of whom are former Republicans). Ocasio-Cortez was referring to a 2021 ballot initiative that would have allowed new congressional and legislative districts to be drawn by the Democratic-dominated state Legislature, instead of by a bipartisan commission created in 2014 with Cuomo’s support. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., after campaigning with Gov.

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