Primary Preview: What's on the Ballot?
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
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🗓️ 24 June 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brian Lerer on WNYC, now Monday morning politics part two. |
| 0:14.6 | We talked about the national scene with a debate coming up. |
| 0:17.4 | Now let's turn to primary day in New York, which is tomorrow, and with nine days of early |
| 0:22.8 | voting already in the books. The marquee race is the Democratic Congressional Primary in Lower |
| 0:27.5 | Westchester and a little of the Bronx between Jamal Bowman and George Latimer, member of the |
| 0:32.5 | squad, with all that implies, versus a challenger being so heavily bankrupted by the pro-Israel lobby APAC. With all that implies versus a challenger being so heavily bankrupted by the pro-Israel lobby APAC, |
| 0:40.0 | with all that implies and drowning moment in spending. |
| 0:44.3 | It's widely being described as a bitter campaign on both sides at this point. |
| 0:49.8 | But there are other things on the ballot, too, including another Democratic congressional primary, |
| 0:54.9 | John Avlon versus Nancy Goroff on Long Island, as they each hope to take on Republican Congressman |
| 1:00.8 | Nicola Lolaota and flip that seat blue, who has the better shot. |
| 1:04.6 | There's an interesting race to be a judge in Queens or nominated to be a judge by the Democrats. |
| 1:10.3 | There are candidates for something called the Judicial Convention that you may see on |
| 1:15.5 | your ballot, and almost nobody knows what that is. |
| 1:18.2 | We'll try to explain. |
| 1:19.6 | And more. |
| 1:20.1 | So with us now are WNYC Senior Politics Reporter Bridget Bergen and Jeff Colton, co-author |
| 1:25.7 | of the morning newsletter, The New York Playbook for Politico. |
| 1:29.7 | Hi, Bridget. |
| 1:30.2 | Hi, Jeff. |
| 1:30.8 | Welcome back to WNYC, Jeff. |
| 1:33.0 | Thank you for having me. |
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