NY-12: Justice Democrats-backed candidate drops NY primary bid after redistricting
Rana Abdelhamid, a Justice Democrats-backed candidate, suspended her bid for for New York’s 12th Congressional District, citing the state’s newly drawn House map.
“Today, I am formally ending my bid for Congress after the court’s undemocratic map removed me and my community from #NY12,” Abdelhamid wrote in a statement.
Abdelhamid, a millennial Muslim activist, was challenging Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.), the latest in a series of Democratic primaries by progressives seeking to oust moderates from their House seats.
After a messy redistricting process that concluded last week, the 12th District does not count Queens, where Abdelhamid resides, within its borders and now only represents Manhattan. At the same time, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) also announced he would run in the district.
https://thehill.com/news/campaign/3506871-justice-democrats-backed-candidate-drops-ny-primary-bid-after-redistricting/
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