While Mazi Pilip, the Republican candidate for New York’s Third Congressional District, held a press conference in Queens Village to announce an endorsement by the National Border Patrol Council, her opponent, Democrat Tom Suozzi, was at a virtual press conference responding to the failure by Congress this week to pass a standalone aid package for Israel.
The Feb. 13 special election of the representative of the Third District, which spans Nassau County and a part of Eastern Queens, is less than a week away.