BREAKING: Jamaal Bowman, a progressive candidate running in his first ever political campaign, has defeated longtime US Rep. Eliot Engel in the New York Democratic primary, according to an AP tally.
Jamaal Bowman, a progressive candidate running in his first ever political campaign, has defeated longtime Rep. Eliot Engel in the New York Democratic primary, according to an Associated Press tally.
Bowman’s victory over Engel in New York’s 16th Congressional District is a mirror image of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s over longtime Rep. Joe Crowley in the 15th district in 2018. Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Bowman over her congressional colleague before the June 23 primary.“Coming into the campaign, we felt that structural racism, institutional racism, institutional classism, institutional sexism and militarism are the evils that continue to plague American society generally," he toldThe win is a major victory for the progressive wing of the party.
Engel, a New York congressman since 1989, was backed by former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Bowman had been leading in the vote count since the night of the June 23 primary, but a surge in absentee voting as a result of the coronavirus pandemic resulted in a delay in the final results. Under New York state law, absentee votes can't begin to be counted until one week after the primary.
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