New York congressional candidates make final appeals before Tuesday primaries

New York congressional candidates spent Monday making final appeals on the last full day of campaigning before Tuesday’s primaries. ABC News reported that the contests are testing Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ability to reshape the city’s congressional delegation after his mayoral victory last year.

Sen. Bernie Sanders the week before the vote. “The party of the past will not be what leads us into the future. We need a Democratic Party with backbone,” Mamdani said. In a Manhattan district, 33-year-old Jack Schlossberg, grandson of former President John F.

Kennedy, is running against state Assembly members Alex Bores and Micah Lasher as well as attorney George Conway. Schlossberg rallied with David Letterman in the campaign’s closing stretch, and his mother Caroline Kennedy released a campaign ad supporting him.

Bores released an ad highlighting the dangers of artificial intelligence.

Mamdani made no endorsement in that race. Darializa Avila Chevalier, backed by the mayor, is challenging U.S. Rep. Adriano Espaillat in a district covering northern Manhattan and part of the Bronx. Former city Comptroller Brad Lander received Mamdani’s endorsement to oppose U.S.

Rep. Dan Goldman. Mamdani also endorsed former state Assembly colleague Claire Valdez in her bid to succeed retiring U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez.