New York special election shows where the center is on immigration

It’s only one election, for one House seat in New York, and an oddly-timed, low-turnout affair, on a snowy day at that. Still, both parties treated the race to replace expelled Republican George Santos as a real-world test of voter sentiment on immigration in the wake of Congress’s collapsed border deal. Echoing former president Donald Trump, whose opposition sabotaged the deal in the Senate, Republican candidate Mazi Pilip called the measure “an absolute non-starter because it simply puts into law the invasion currently happening at our southern border.”