Tuesday Morning Politics: New York's Congressional Map
The Brian Lehrer Show
WNYC
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Kadia Goba, political reporter at Semafor, talks about the New York congressional map and what the upcoming 2024 elections mean for the city, state and the country.
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| 0:00.0 | We have just talked about the latest Trump election fraud case. |
| 0:16.9 | Now a 2024 politics addendum that runs right through New York. |
| 0:21.8 | Kadea Gobe covers Congress at the news organization Semaphore and she's been writing lately about |
| 0:27.5 | the hot races expected in and around New York City next year that could determine which party |
| 0:32.6 | controls Congress. |
| 0:33.6 | She's got an article about how New York may test the limits of the power of abortion |
| 0:38.7 | to determine congressional race outcomes, how immigration might replace crime as a central |
| 0:44.8 | flashpoint, especially for Republicans. |
| 0:47.8 | Crime is seen as a defining issue that greatly benefited Republicans in the New York swing |
| 0:51.9 | districts last year, remember. |
| 0:54.2 | And she reports that Brooklyn and Manhattan Congressman Gerald Nadler, former chairman |
| 0:58.3 | of the House Judiciary Committee, might have a new challenger, former Trump attorney |
| 1:03.1 | Michael Cohen. |
| 1:04.1 | Kadea, thanks for coming on. |
| 1:05.9 | Welcome back to WNYC. |
| 1:06.9 | Thank you for having me, Brian. |
| 1:10.2 | Michael Cohen, who went to prison in the Stormy Daniels hush money cover up, but has since |
| 1:14.5 | turned on Donald Trump, that Michael Cohen. |
| 1:17.5 | That Michael Cohen, the same Michael Cohen, who, as you said, served a little over a year |
| 1:22.2 | in jail because he was found guilty of what campaign finance and the collusion with Donald |
| 1:29.0 | Trump and Stormy Daniels. |
| 1:32.0 | So yes, that Michael Cohen possibly is running against Jerry Nadler. |
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