It was a decisive victory: Suozzi won by 7.8 points. (Santos had won by 8 points, so that’s a swing of 15.8 points!). And in a snowstorm. Robert Hubbell wrote on February 14, 2024:
“We cannot become complacent because of Suozzi’s victory. Rather, the lesson is that we must replicate the enormous effort that went into securing Suozzi’s victory.” Even CNN recognized that an army of grassroots volunteers helped Suozzi:
Grassroots progressive groups like Engage Long Island, which is part of the Indivisible network, have been feverishly knocking on doors – taking their case directly to like-minded neighbors. And Suozzi has massively outraised Pilip, taking in $4.5 million to her $1.3 million, according to Federal Election Commission filings that cover the beginning of October through January 24 of this year.
Tonight, we all owe a debt of gratitude to the grassroots volunteers at Indivisible. PostCardsToVoters (sent 202,236 fully handwritten postcards to Democrats in NY-03), Markers for Democracy, Swing Left, and dozens of other groups that did the hard work of getting out the vote to ensure victory! You are all heroes!”
Suozzi said in his victory speech: “I want to thank the grassroots folks all over the country and here on Long Island and New York. During this campaign we did 2 million phone calls, hundreds of thousands of postcards, hundreds of thousands of texts, 150,000 door knockers. It’s just amazing how many people contributed to our success at the grassroots level. I mean, it’s so humbling to me to have had so many people help in this campaign.”
We can’t say it any better than that, except to add that our TP2B groups wrote 5,375 postcards to help the Suozzi campaign. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen!