When Tom Suozzi and Mazi Pilip finally shared a debate stage on Thursday the contrast couldn’t have been more obvious, or urgent.

If you’re a voter in Eastern Queens or Nassau County still considering your vote, or whether to cast one, take the advice of my colleagues on the Daily News Editorial Board and show up on Election Day this Tuesday to back Suozzi.

Fraudulent fabulist George Santos is looming over this special election, where the parties rather than voters picked the candidates to fill the seat he won and then was expelled from after Suozzi left it to try to primary Gov. Hochul.

(I spent a few months working for Suozzi, who I didn’t know before then and have rarely been in contact with since, in his previous primary for governor back in 2006, when he was steamrolled by then New York Attorney General and party pick Eliot Spitzer. A few years later, Suozzi lost his county executive position to a Republican in a wave year for the GOP.)

If there was any doubt why Pilip, a registered Democrat running on the Republican line, has hidden behind TV ads attacking her opponent while ducking interviews and unscripted settings, the town-hall style debate........

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