A middle school principal in New York who's launching a bid to unseat a powerful House Democrat is finding help from the same group that helped Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez win her long-shot bid in the 2018 midterm elections
Jamaal Bowman, from Yonkers, will challenge Rep. Eliot Engel, a 16-term incumbent. Bowman has the backing of the progressive political action committee Justice Democrats, which helped Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, a Massachusetts Democrat, unseat the incumbent Democrats in their respective districts. Bowman is the first candidate from New York to be backed by Justice Democrats in the 2020 election, and the second 2020 candidate the group has backed across the country.
It's time for #NY16 to have a Democrat who will fight for jobs and education, not bombs and incarceration.— Jamaal Bowman June 18, 2019 Bowman's platform is based on various progressive policies. In his launch video, he outlines his desire to"make public college free, Medicare for all people, universal child care, criminal justice reform and the Green New Deal." Bowman is one of two current challengers for Engel's seat in 2020.
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