A Super PAC aligned with President Trump is spending nearly $8 million to back Republican Mike LiPetri’s challenge against Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi in New York’s 3rd Congressional District, according to sources cited by The Post.
The group, No Going Back PAC, has purchased $5.7 million in television ads over a three-week window, based on a review of ad buying data from both parties. It is also spending another $2 million on direct mail to households across the district, which covers Nassau County’s North Shore along with parts of Queens and Suffolk counties, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
No Going Back is an offshoot of MAGA Inc., the primary Trump-aligned Super PAC.
What the ads say
One 30-second spot attacks Suozzi over congressional stock trading: “Tom Suozzi voted against banning congressional insider trading because he’s made over $10 million dollars trading stocks in Washington,” the ad claims. It goes on: “Tom Suozzi serves himself. Mike LiPetri will serve New York by banning politicians from insider trading and holding Congress accountable.”
Counting the Congressional Leadership Fund, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the LiPetri campaign itself, Republicans are spending close to $8.5 million total on TV ads against Suozzi, according to the Suozzi campaign.
Suozzi camp pushes back
Suozzi campaign senior advisor Kim Devlin disputed the stock-trading claim directly.
“Tom Suozzi has not purchased a single stock since he returned to Congress in January of 2025,” Devlin said.
Devlin also turned the attack back on the funding source behind it.
“Mike LiPetri is being bankrolled by President Trump, who has traded more securities than every member of Congress combined since he returned to office. This is not only desperate but the height of hypocrisy,” Devlin said.
A rematch with a narrow history
LiPetri, a former state assemblyman, and Suozzi, a former Nassau County executive, are facing off again after Suozzi beat LiPetri by just 3 percentage points in a February 2024 special election. That contest filled the seat vacated by expelled Republican Rep. George Santos.
Suozzi had previously given up the seat in 2022 to run for governor, losing the Democratic primary to Gov. Kathy Hochul. Republicans did not spend heavily on the 2024 special election, but Trump carried the district in the presidential race that year, a factor widely credited with helping LiPetri’s unexpectedly strong showing.
Suozzi’s own campaign is airing ads casting him as a centrist. “I don’t work for parties. I work for you,” Suozzi says in one spot, with a narrator adding that he “rejects extremism on both sides because you’re always there on our side.”
Separately, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce awarded Suozzi its “Free Enterprise” award on Monday, the first time a Democrat has received the honor. His campaign says the award undercuts efforts to paint him as anything other than a pro-business moderate.
Other Nassau-area races drawing PAC money
FEC records show No Going Back PAC is also spending to help Republican Jeanine Driscoll try to unseat first-term Democratic Rep. Laura Gillen in District 4, which covers Nassau County’s south shore beach communities and much of the town of Hempstead.
The same PAC is additionally backing two-term Republican Rep. Mike Lawler, who faces a challenge from Democrat Cait Conley in the 17th Congressional District, covering the Hudson Valley counties of Rockland, Putnam, Westchester and Dutchess.
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