Anthony D’Esposito likes to tell a story about one of his first days on patrol as a young cop. He remembers sitting inside his car and blasting the air conditioning, when a man knocked on the window.
“Keep the windows down,” he recalls the man saying. “That’s the only way you can hear, smell and really see the streets.”
The New York Republican compares that to his strategy in politics right now, as he serves in a Long Island district that went for Joe Biden by double digits in 2020. As many of his colleagues in the House are quick to target abortion, for example, D’Esposito says that “the Republican Party of Nassau County and the Republican parties across this country are different Republican parties.”
