Jonathan Herzog
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The race, in this particular race, over $2 million has been spent.
The field has narrowed from eight to three.
And I have become, at least in the past week, the singular threat and challenge to Representative Nadler's seat.
And this lawsuit that we won this past week to reinstate the primary, to just give people the chance to vote, is now being appealed in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
And if you look at the brief, if you look at the filing, you have the New York attorney general arguing to cancel the primary, the New York governor arguing to cancel the primary, the New York State Democratic Party, and this entire cast of characters.
I don't know why.
No one's walking into booths, though, Nathan.
The governor passed an executive action on his own doing weeks before, making voting safe by mail for everyone.
If you're a resident of New York, no matter where you are, you can go to nycabsentee.com.
It takes literally one minute and you can get your ballot mailed anywhere, anywhere you are.
And the other reality is congressional and state elections are happening regardless on June 23rd.
So that's why the federal judge this past Monday said their argument was bullshit because people are anyways voting.
They're voting for congressional elections like mine for state assembly elections on the same day.
Absolutely.
I am a Democrat running for Congress in New York's 10th district, which covers the entire west side of Manhattan and South Brooklyn.
And so this covers Wall Street, all the investment management.
Just to skip over the East River.
And this is in many ways the ground zero for all the forces that we've been talking about in the Yang campaign and in the Yang gang, where, again, this is one of the most educated, most liberal urban districts, one of the biggest winners on the whole from this new economy.
But one in six people live in poverty, can't meet their basic needs.
And if you've ever set foot on the west side of Manhattan, you know