George Santos hasn't resigned but both sides of the aisle are plotting their next moves. Republicans are trying to find a candidate with an immaculate, bulletproof résumé and Democrats are looking for someone who can lead their comeback.
Rep. George Santos hasn’t resigned. He hasn’t even publicly said that he won’t run for re-election in 2024. But the shadow race to replace him has already begun.
The timing is complicated. Santos could resign any day now. And if he did, it’d spark a special election, where party leaders would pick their own candidates. Santos has remained adamant he won’t resign unless all 142,673 voters who voted for him call on him to do so—a purposefully impossible goalpost to track.
On the Democratic side, it’s a hodge-podge of candidates old and new. Robert Zimmerman, the Democrat who lost to Santos in November, has been the subject of much speculation. Some see him as a natural default; he already has name recognition and organizing in place. And he openly called for Santos to resign and face him in a rematch, insisting the congressman should “let the voters decide.”
, and has been reaching out to party leaders. Melanie D'Arrigo, a progressive organizer who ran in the same primary contest, told The Daily Beast, that if there's a special election, “sure, I would love to run, or, you know, would definitely consider running.
There is one looming wild card—Rep. Tom Suozzi —who represented the district before opting to run for governor in 2022. He built a brand as a moderate among an increasingly progressive House Democratic Caucus—though that brand didn’t launch him to success in the gubernatorial primary; he came in a distant third.
But Republican leadership in the House has not done the same. It’s unclear what role they’ll play in a 2024 cycle in Santos’ district. If he somehow did run again, national Republican campaign arms could make the rare decision to campaign against an incumbent.told local GOP leaders, national Republican leadership is left with the choice of leaving the primary contest to voters altogether, or put their thumb on the scale to ensure no more problem children come out of the district.
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