NEW YORK-DISTRICT 17
I think the fact that there are Congressional races all over the country where you have AOC-type progressives who are either challenging the old guard in primaries or are are poised to try to take the seats of those who are retiring is worthy of attention. Amanda M.
https://jewishweek.timesofisrael.com/lowey-retirement-paves-way-for-generational-c
The decision by longtime Westchester Rep. Nita Lowey, the 82-year-old pro-Israel stalwart, not to seek re-election next year opens up the possibility of generational change in the district after 31 years of her leadership.
Lowey’s retirement and the fact that she was already facing a primary challenge from the left also shakes up a race that calls to mind the 2018 primary fight between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Joe Crowley, the longtime representative of Queens and the Bronx whose defeat came as a shock to the Democratic establishment. Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning victory inspired a new wave of primary challengers, particularly in safely blue districts in New York like Lowey’s, where Mondaire Jones, a former attorney for Westchester County, announced his campaign for Lowey’s seat in July. Jones raised $218,000 in the third quarter of this year.
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