endorsed by the Human Rights Campaign in his bid for the party’s nomination for New York’s 17th Congressional District, defeated seven other candidates, leading his closest challenger by a 2-1 margin.Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there are several thousand mail-in votes yet to be counted in the district.
But as of Wednesday morning, Jones led the field with 45% of the vote, ahead of former federal prosecutor Adam Schleifer, who won 21% of the vote.
State Sen. David Carlucci, the leader of the Independent Democratic Conference, a breakaway group of Democratic state senators who for several years swung power in Albany’s upper chamber to the Republicans in an effort to block progressive legislation, came in third with 13% of the vote.The.
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