We are a week away from the primaries.
Democrats
and Republicans in New York are holding nominating contests next
Tuesday for federal seats, including the House and the Senate. (State
primaries, which include the governor’s race, will take place in
September.)
To get us up to speed on the most important and interesting races in the state, we spoke to Shane Goldmacher, the chief political correspondent on The Times’s Metro desk.
Here’s what he’s watching:
A heated race in New York City’s Trump Country.
“The most interesting Republican primary, certainly in New York,
possibly in the country, is in Staten Island,” Mr. Goldmacher said. Michael Grimm
once represented the 11th Congressional District, which includes Staten
Island and parts of southern Brooklyn, but resigned the seat in 2014
after pleading guilty to tax fraud. (He served seven months in prison.)
Now, he’d like his old job back. He’s challenging Representative Dan Donovan, and the two are competing to see who’s more aligned with President Trump — the president endorsed Mr. Donovan, but the swaggering Mr. Grimm is the more Trump-like figure.
Democratic upstarts in the city.
A group of incumbent Democrats in New York are facing primary
challengers, many of whom are first-time candidates under the age of 35.
Representative Joseph Crowley, who some see as possibly replacing Nancy Pelosi as the head of the House Democrats, is being challenged for the first time since 2004, by the progressive candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Representatives Carolyn Maloney (Manhattan’s East Side and parts of
Queens), Eliot Engel (the Bronx), Yvette Clarke (central Brooklyn) and
Gregory W. Meeks (southern Queens) are also facing insurgents within
their party.
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Source: The New York Times (via Empire Report New York)
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