It took nearly a month, but a progressive insurgent challenger has toppled longtime Rep. Eliot Engel in New York’s Democratic primary, ousting the powerful chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in a major upset.
The Associated Press called the race for Jamaal Bowman, a former middle school principal and first-time candidate, on Friday, more than three weeks after the June 23 primary election.
Riding a wave of support from the biggest names on the left – including Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, and first-term Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York — Bowman defeated Engel by a rougly 15-point margin in the primary in New York’s 16th Congressional District, which encompasses parts of the New York City borough of the Bronx and portions of neighboring southern Westchester County.
Many votes in the primary were cast by mail, and some have still yet to be counted.
But an AP analysis of absentee ballots that had been counted so far indicated Friday that Bowman’s lead is too far from Engel to overcome.
After AP made the call, Bowman tweeted “I’m a Black man who was raised by a single mother in a housing project. That story doesn’t usually end in Congress. But today, that 11-year old boy who was beaten by police is about to be your next Representative.”
(Source: Fox News)
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May I hear when and why that boy was beaten or that’s never part of the equation.
I wonder which way the Democratic Party is going
This is a pretty terrible outcome, but to any of us who live in Rep Engel’s district, it comes as no surprise. Engel has been invisible since the 2018 election. He ran a terrible, tired, unfocused campaign, and he made communications mistakes that a rookie wouldn’t. He looked like he took it for granted until it was too late. This Bowman is very much in the camp of AOC and the squad, but give him his due, he worked very hard for the nomination.
Pro Israel my foot. Good riddance to Engel. He was a part of the whole impeachment hoax. Hashem paid him back tow fold. Maybe he will do teshuva and be a proper Jew
NYC- not a place for sane people anymore.
Hmmmm; I wonder why he was “beaten by police”??
Your “pro Israel” congressman kneeled down for the virulent anti Semite Marxist black lives matter organization.
He spent the last three plus years highly involved in the hoax against our President, someone who arguably has been the best to EY in a while.
Bottom line is, he’s nothing more than חזר פיס . He got what he deserved.
May I hear when and why that boy was beaten or that’s never part of the equation.
It probably never happened. Most of these stories are fabricated.