Outgoing New York Rep. Kathleen Rice says she warned Democratic leaders that the party would 'lose'

[RandySF]

In the November midterms, Republicans had a huge year in New York State, a sharp contrast to Democratic overperformance in suburbs across much of the country. The GOP won every congressional district anchored on Long Island — despite Democrats holding a party registration edge in both Nassau and Suffolk — and came out ahead in key districts in the Hudson Valley and Upstate.

And outgoing four-term Democratic Rep. Kathleen Rice, who will be succeeded by GOP Rep.-elect Anthony D'Esposito next week, said in a recent Politico interview that she sounded the alarm to party leaders regarding her intuition about the state of play on Long Island ahead of the midterms.

Rice, a moderate who represents the Long Island-based 4th Congressional District and previously served as the Nassau County district attorney for nearly a decade, told the news outlet that her warnings about the dire prospects of Democrats in the suburbs of New York City went unheeded.

"This is a blue, blue state, and it's the reason why we lost the majority," Rice said. "We lost four House seats. I said [to party leaders], 'You guys, don't understand, we're gonna lose Long Island. And we're gonna lose some other seats, further up.' They said, 'No, no, no, your seat was a Biden +13.'"




https://www.businessinsider.com/kathleen-rice-warned-long-island-new-york-democratic-losses-midterms-2022-12

[GreenWave]

1. The fall of NY and Death Sentence gerrymandering several new Florida districts

are the reasons the Democrats do not run the House today.

[Initech]

3. It's the propaganda.

Fox News and internet social media are the reasons why democrats lost in a lot of areas where we traditionally win. Hate and white supremacy are big sellers right now, and stochastic terrorism is a very profitable business to be in. It's way past time we start fighting back against these dipshits with everything we got.

[Tree Lady]

7. And we lost one in Oregon because they primaried

the less progressive guy who would have won the new district with more republicans in it.

[samsingh]

2. NYC should have gone better in the elections

[moose65]

6. This isn't about NYC

This is about the suburban districts on Long Island.

Democrats did what they always do - they don’t concentrate on getting out their base voters in midterm elections.

Turnout is always down in midterms, but Dems didn’t turn out even in districts where they have a huge advantage. NY and California alone cost us the House majority.

[Lucky Luciano]

4. NY is blue, but there are a lot of shitty people on Long Island.

Make no mistake…lots of faux tough guys who spout conservative talking points because it seems more masculine. Plenty of conservative antivaxxers and conspiracy nuts. Lots of working class whites - the shittiest demographic.

[Retrograde]

5. The cities in New York are blue

the areas with lower population density not so much. I place most of the blame on the Democrats in the state legislature who decided to gerrymander the new districts so blatantly that a court overthrew them. Next chunk of blame goes to the Democratic voters who didn't bother to show up in November. And there's some blame leftover for those who didn't bother to fill out their census, stupid as some questions more, which led to New York's losing a seat by less than 100 people.