Tom Suozzi: “I thought my fellow moderates had been 'asleep at the switch' in the face of the ascendant far left.”

If I show up and say ‘hey lets work together to solve the problems that we face in our country,’ you’re not going to get a big rally for that.

I call myself a new kind of old-fashioned Democrat. Someone who believes in the traditional values.

I started a thing called The Promise to America, where I've got now 10 members of Congress signed onto it. We're in the process of getting 200 state and local officials.

We've identified 10 candidates, Democratic candidates, to sign the pledge that says 'We're capitalist, not socialist. We're for safety, not lawlessness. We're proud, not ashamed of America, and we're mainstream, we're not extreme.'