Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) is locked in a contentious primary fight for New York’s 16th district with challenger George Latimer. It’s a proxy battle revealing “schisms” within the Democratic Party, NBC News Correspondent Ali Vitali reports.
MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. — Bernie Sanders has lined up on one side of the race, Hillary Clinton on the other. A Democratic House primary in New York is in many ways a redux of the 2016 presidential primary — with much of the familiar vitriol. Tuesday’s election between progressive Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.
and affiliates are pouring in an unprecedented amount of money … and so that makes it essential,” Bowman said in an interview with NBC News in Mount Vernon, a New York City suburb in southern Westchester County. “Do you want to send an educator back to Congress who spent his entire life serving children and families and babies in our community and uplifting the working class?” said Bowman, 48, a former middle school principal in the Bronx.
are the ones destroying democracy,” Bowman shouted at the Saturday rally, his words embodying the acrimony and bitterness that have come to define the tone of this race. “We’re going to show f---ing
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