Jamaal Bowman has been compared to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, another younger progressive from the Bronx who mounted a long-shot campaign against a powerful, centrist Democrat who'd held his seat for years
Photo: Jamaal Bowman for U.S. Congress When Hillary Clinton endorsed Representative Eliot Engel, a 73-year-old Democrat from New York who hasn’t faced a real primary challenge in 20 years, many progressives took it as a sign: The party Establishment was nervous. Engel’s opponent is Jamaal Bowman, 44, a former middle-school principal running far to his left; he bills himself as “a Democrat who will fight for schools and education, not bombs and incarceration.
For obvious reasons, Bowman has been compared to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, another younger progressive from the Bronx who mounted a long-shot campaign against a powerful Democrat, one closer to the center of the political spectrum than the left, who’d held on to his seat for years. As with AOC’s victory, ousting Engel would truly shake party foundations. And Bowman has a very real chance of doing so: A Data for Progress poll recently had him up over Engel by ten points .
The twin crises of the coronavirus and police brutality that erupted in the past few months have made it clear how qualified Bowman is for the position he seeks. As a Black, working-class resident of his district, which covers the Bronx as well as wealthier areas like Westchester, plus the suburbs of Mount Vernon, Yonkers, and New Rochelle, Bowman is much more in touch with those who have suffered the most in the devastation wrought by COVID-19.
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