Suozzi & Gillen Cozied Up to Hochul and the Political Machine Behind Mamdani. In November, it Will be Their Downfall.
Socialist radicals Zohran Mamdani and Kathy Hochul are wildly unpopular on Long Island, but Two-Faced Tom Suozzi and Lyin’ Laura Gillen spent years cultivating allegiances with them. This fall, every voter on Long Island will know about Suozzi and Gillen’s radical records.
From aligning themselves with the radical, defund the police groups behind Mamdani’s rise, like the Working Families Party and Indivisible, to proudly backing Hochul’s reelection bid, Suozzi and Gillen have sealed their own fate.
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Republican plan to win Long Island runs through Hochul and Mamdani
Hailey Bullis
Washington Examiner
July 13, 2026
EXCLUSIVE — Republicans, hoping to turn the tide of Democrats’ progressive momentum against them, plan to tie two centrist Long Island Democrats to the records of Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) and socialist New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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Both Suozzi and Gillen endorsed Hochul’s reelection bid earlier this year. But Hochul lost their New York House districts in 2022, with the governor losing Suozzi’s by 8.5 percentage points and Gillen’s by 5.8 points.
The NRCC is linking the pair to Mamdani through their shared connections to the Working Families Party, which backed Mamdani during his mayoral campaign last year. Suozzi was endorsed by the group in 2018 and ran on the party’s ballot line in 2020. Gillen, meanwhile, ran on their ballot line in 2017 and 2019.
“Tom Suozzi and Laura Gillen’s allegiances are clear: They answer to Kathy Hochul and Zohran Mamdani before Long Islanders, and the NRCC plans to exploit it this fall,” the memo reads.
The NRCC strategy underscores a belief that a surge of socialist wins in the Democratic Party can be used against more vulnerable Democratic incumbents ahead of the general election.
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The NRCC also plans to highlight the impact of Democratic policies on New Yorkers’ pocketbooks. The Republican campaign arm hits Suozzi and Gillen for their opposition to Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes an increase in the state and local tax cap that is championed by New York Republicans.
Republicans are hoping Hochul’s “pied-a-terre tax,” which charges an annual surcharge tax on secondary residences valued at $5 million or more and is backed by Mamdani, will also be a drag on New York Democrats in November with Hochul’s name on top of the ballot.
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The Washington Examiner has reached out to Suozzi and Gillen for comment.