State Senate Deputy Majority Leader Michael Gianaris said Tuesday that redistricting was not to blame for his party’s struggles on Election Day.

Instead, the Queens Democrat argued that candidates underperformed in newly drawn districts President Joe Biden would have won in 2020.

"If you overlaid all the various scenarios onto the results from Tuesday, the same result would have happened because Democrats did poorly on Long Island and those races would have been lost," Gianaris told Bobby Cuza on "Inside City Hall,” citing an analysis from the magazine City and State that showed earlier maps drawn by Albany Democrats would not have helped Democrats win races they eventually lost running in less friendly, court-approved maps. "These are all districts that Biden won. And so the performance of the candidates for Congress seems to have been the main culprit here."

Democrats lost all four congressional seats on Long Island, as well as several upstate seats in competitive districts and another district in the city largely comprised of Staten Island.

In the aftermath of Election Day struggles, some New York Democrats blamed the redistricting process earlier this year for resulting in a more competitive map that lead to Republican wins as Democrats tried to hold on to the majority in the House of Representatives.

Albany Democrats, including Gianaris, drew congressional and state Senate maps that state courts later overturned and enlisted a special master from Pennsylvania to redraw maps considered to be more fair to Republicans.

But Gianaris, a western Queens legislator who leads state Senate Democrats' campaign efforts, argued other factors, including campaign strategy and the role of the state Democratic Party, were far greater contributors to electoral losses in House and state Assembly seats.

"There's a lot of deflection and finger pointing going on from perhaps from those who are actually responsible," Gianaris said. "But that's for them to answer."

For his part, Gianaris and his colleagues secured at least 40 seats in the 63-seat state Senate, two shy of a supermajority with two races still yet to be called.

Getting to 42 Democrats in the chamber would allow the Senate to override a veto by Gov. Kathy Hochul, though legislators have yet to exercise that option in the past two years with their current supermajority.

"I don't know that you could have any better validation from the voters of the direction we've taken in the Senate than a year that was very tough for our colleagues in Washington," he said. "I would look at this as a mandate to keep going in the direction we're going."

As some Democrats from across the state have called on Hochul to remove state party chair Jay Jacobs — a Cuomo-era holdover — from his position, Gianaris declined to join their call, though he did not give Jacobs a vote of confidence.

"I have made very clear to her and her team very directly what my opinion is," Gianaris said, adding it was "suffice to say" he was not a supporter of Jacobs. "I'm gonna keep that counsel private for now, but hopefully, we'll get this party unified and moving forward."

Gianaris also discussed bail reform, calling it a "red herring" for critics who blame the policy for rising crime and saying Democratic legislators would only consider changes "if the data justifies it."