Signalling fresh momentum for progressive politics.
Tuesday's nominating contests in New York, Kentucky and several other states pitted establishment Democrats against challengers pushing for sweeping change after the May 25 death of George Floyd, a Black man, while in Minneapolis police custody.
Jamaal Bowman, a Black middle-school principal backed by Ocasio-Cortez and other leading progressives, looked poised to defeat U.S. Representative Eliot Engel, the chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee who has been in Congress more than three decades. Bowman led by about 60% to 34%.
Engel did not concede, however, with a record number of requested absentee ballots because of the coronavirus pandemic not yet counted. She is expected to win a second term in the November general election in her heavily Democratic New York City district.
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