Hochul, backing Tom Suozzi, calls race for Santos’ seat her ‘top priority’

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday offered her one-time bitter rival Tom Suozzi a full-throated endorsement in his high-stakes special election race for the Long Island House seat vacated by George Santos. On the eve of the start of early voting, Hochul, a centrist Democrat, said it was her “top priority” to help Suozzi win the seat for the Democratic Party, which is aiming to cut the Republican Party’s advantage in the House to two seats. “I’ve been working very closely with Tom Suozzi. I believe that he is the best person to represent that district,” Hochultold reporters at a prosecutors...