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Jamaal Bowman, a black 44-year-old former middle school principal, appears set to topple Eliot Engel — a 73-year-old white centrist who has spent two decades in Congress — in a district just north of Manhattan, according to a preliminary count from the New York Board of Elections. On the state level, leftist Julia Salazar breezed past opponents to maintain her New York senate seat as fellow Democratic Socialist Jabari Brisport appeared poised to join her there.
“It's the confluence of this perfect storm,” said Nadia E. Brown, a scholar of politics and African-American studies at Purdue University. “But what I think will happen is that these progressives will have a large enough voice... to push those that are in power to rethink some standard policies,” she told AFP.
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