NEW YORK: Energized by the US’s massive anti-racism protests, history-making progressives from New York - young, black, Latino and gay - want to shake...
In this file photo taken on June 23, 2020, New York Democratic House candidate Jamaal Bowman greets supporters in Yonkers, New York. — AFPEnergized by the US’s massive anti-racism protests, history-making progressives from New York - young, black, Latino and gay - want to shake up Congress’s status quo when they are likely elected in November.
The pair will be joined by 44-year-old Jamaal Bowman, who is black. He is a school principal and has three children with his wife. “The more overtly socialist wing of the Democratic Party did not really used to exist at all until not that long ago and now is a major force,“ he told AFP. He has said the Republican Party will beat “Marxists, anarchists, and agitators” during his re-election bid.Mass protests following the killing of George Floyd in police custody in May and the racial and economic disparities highlighted by the coronavirus pandemic helped spur the New York trio’s candidacies.Jones won in an overwhelmingly white district where only ten percent of the population is black.
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