This is Brian Lehrer's Daily Politics Podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Thursday, August 11th.

I'm Arun Van deGa Paul from the WNYC Newsroom, filling in for Brian Lairer, who's off today.

We'll recap last night's congressional debate for New York 10 and listened to some clips from it. New York 10 was redrawn after the

fraught redistricting process earlier this year, and it's rather gnarly. The district stretches

from the West Village across to the East Village, and then it goes down to Brooklyn Heights,

Red Hook, Park Slope, Sunset Park, Borough Park.

Last night's debate was only open to the six leading candidates in this rather crowded field

and moderators, Errol Lewis and Bridget Bergen, covered a whole lot of ground.

So, let's get into it with WNWC and Gotham's own Bridget Bergen, senior political correspondent. Hi Bridget. Great to have you with this.

It's so great to be here with you in studio, Arun. That's right. So Bridget, what is so special about this race?

So Arun, this is an open seat, which is so special about this race?

So, Arun, this is an open seat, which is a very rare thing in New York politics.

Because of this redistricting process, there's no incumbent.

And so you have this field of really strong candidates.

As you said, this debate last night was the six leading contenders. There are actually 13 candidates on the entire ballot. But these candidates who were on the stage

tonight, excuse me, on the stage last night were all candidates who either were previous

elected office holders or had raised $500,000. So really showed that they had strong support within the

community. And they used every opportunity they could last night to, I think, really make their

closing arguments to voters. Well, we're going to have some clips, lots of clips, but let's talk about

the candidates and sort of how they stand

out or are trying to stand out. You have Mondaire Jones. He is an incumbent, albeit in another

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