“If we’re losing a race to George Santos, New York Democrats need to ask what’s wrong with how we’re running campaigns. This is frankly embarrassing and absolutely cannot happen again,” state Sen. Jessica Ramos tweeted.
On Thursday, video emerged of Santos claiming he once had aAnd despite most of Santos’ deceit hiding in plain sight, Democrats missed it all, which has led to many state Democrats demanding to know who dropped the ball on exposing Santos before the midterm elections.
Boylan, who was also a whistleblower against Gov. Andrew Cuomo , is among a wing of New York Democrats publicly calling for a shift in strategy. She believes the New York State Democratic Party, among others, hasn’t showed up enough, hasn’t spent correctly, hasn’t been an effective source of aid to candidates in close contests.
“So not a damn thing he touted about himself was factual? In the county ‘led’ by [New York State Democratic Party Chair Jay Jacobs], no less. Maybe spend a little less time demonizing progressives and a little more doing oppo research on republicans running in your county?” state Sen. Gustavo Rivera Jacobs, a Cuomo administration holdover, had already faced ire from the left in the wake of the election results.
Zimmerman didn’t respond to a request for an interview sent to his company’s email, but in the days since the Santos revelations broke, Zimmerman has called on the congressman-elect to resign and to face him again in a special election. It’s difficult to know whether New York Democrats—or Democrats nationally—really didn’t know or act on the Santos revelations before the election. With most opposition research, political operatives will work to place their newly found info with reporters for publication. But reporters are also tasked with cross-checking that information and sometimes adding to it.
On a broader scale, New York Democrats failed at messaging this cycle. Republicans berated them over crime and made major inroads in the traditionally blue state.
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