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N.Y. 3rd District Special Election

 * Tom Suozzi Wins
 * Results
 * Takeaways
 * A Playbook for Democrats
 * G.O.P. House Majority Shrinks

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HOUSE REPUBLICAN MAJORITY SHRINKS AGAIN AS CONGRESS FACES CRITICAL ISSUES

The victory of Tom Suozzi, a Democrat, in a special election in New York will
chip away at the already thin Republican hold over the House.

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Tom Suozzi won the swing district that had been held by George
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By Annie Karni

Reporting from Washington

Feb. 14, 2024Updated 3:22 p.m. ET
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And then there were two.

With Democrat Tom Suozzi’s victory in a special House election in New York on
Tuesday, the shrinking Republican majority in the House was on track to dwindle
even further, leaving the G.O.P. able to afford only two defections from the
party line on votes when all members are present.

That will give them almost no cushion to deal with the inevitable absences
caused by illness, travel delays, weddings, funerals and unforeseen events that
could keep Republicans away from the House floor for votes. It comes as Congress
is facing a crush of issues, including early-March deadlines for funding the
government and a pending emergency national security spending bill to send aid
to Ukraine, Israel and other American allies.

It also gives each individual House Republican even more leverage over Speaker
Mike Johnson, who is already struggling to steer his unmanageable majority.

“I would be constantly on defense, I would be trying to avoid defeats, and I
would be very, very careful,” former Speaker Newt Gingrich said in an interview.



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The dangers of the slim margin were already apparent on Tuesday night, even
before Mr. Suozzi won the Long Island seat formerly occupied by George Santos,
the Republican lawmaker who was expelled from the House in December.

In their second attempt to impeach Alejandro N. Mayorkas, the homeland security
secretary, Republicans succeeded by just one vote after three of their members
broke with the party to oppose it. If either of the two Democrats who were
absent had shown up, the impeachment that Republicans had been promising their
voters for more than a year would have failed again. (The two Democratic
absentees were Representative Judy Chu of California, who said she was isolating
after testing positive for the coronavirus, and Representative Lois Frankel of
Florida, who was grounded by a delayed flight.)

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Annie Karni is a congressional correspondent for The Times. She writes features
and profiles, with a recent focus on House Republican leadership. More about
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