New York’s 3rd Congressional District, a patch of land that includes Long Island’s Northshore area and parts of Queens, embraced Congressman-elect George Santos for its chosen representative in a bitter defeat for the rising Working Families Party.
Rep. Santos reigned triumphant in the 2022 midterm elections against George Zimmerman, one of the few GOP victories as part of the red wave that washed ashore in parts of a reliably blue state.
He was everything the modern Republican Party could ideate against the ‘wokes’ — a wealthy, young, gay Republican — born to Brazilian immigrants, attributes that fly in the face of Democratic criticism of candidate quality.
A “walking, living, breathing contradiction,” according to the congressman, and the only capable candidate to flip the district red.
He ran his campaign without a Trump endorsement — despite his unwavering support of the former President — though that may have spared him a loss, like other endorsees who saw rejection across the country.
A loyal MAGA customer, Santos bought anything former President Donald Trump sold, particularly his criticisms of the Russia-Ukraine war, having called the receptor of a forceful military effort by Russia a “totalitarian regime.”
Santos further suggested that Ukraine had welcomed the Russian military over its borders, a false claim, since it had forcefully invaded Ukraine and has since maintained a military campaign to seize it.
He lambasted President Joe…
