Long-time Pro-Israel Congressman Eliot Engel is likely to lose the seat for New York’s 16th Congressional District to his progressive challenger, Middle-school principal Jamaal Bowman, results show.
Rep. Elliot Engel, who has been in Congress since 1989, was behind Bowman by a 61 percent to 34 percent margin in Engel’s Bronx-Westchester district.
Bowman received high-profile endorsements from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, as well as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Hillary Clinton, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer had also thrown their support behind Engel.
Engel, 73, serves as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Because of the major increase in New Yorkers casting ballots by mail and election officials not being allowed to count absentee ballots until days after the election, the race won’t be called until after June 30.
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The demographic makeup of Engel’s current district has changed from when he was first elected 32 years ago.
It’s a bad time for Caucasian candidates. We’ll see how effective these Progressives are. People get the government they want.
Engel was an establishment lefty. We need to defeat the others like Schumer as well. Even though radicals are taking over the democRATs it’s best. Let everyone see how crazy the democRATic party is
“Pro-Israel Jewish Democrat”? With these so-called “Pro-Israel Jewish” we do not need any KKK and other Jew-hating scumbags.
Cry me a river.
To the mods: Does the comment by MoisheinGolus comport with your rules about comments? He (or she) equates pro-Isreal Jewish Democrats, of which I am one, with “jew-hating scumbags,” which I am not.
lowerourtuition makes a good point. Lots of long-term incumbent Congressmen/women of both parties are defeated when the demographics of their districts change. A good example: Ocasio-Cortez defeated long-term incumbent Pat Crowley in part because the district is much more heavily Hispanic than when Crowley was first elected.
Progressive sounds like when they call China “the People’s Republic” – it’s neither for the people or a republic. Progressive candidates are not progressive – they are stalling progress.