New York Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, who narrowly lost a bid to represent the state’s 10th Congressional District late last month, won’t run again in November.
(Bloomberg) — New York Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou, who narrowly lost a bid to represent the state’s 10th Congressional District late last month, won’t run again in November.
“We are conceding the primary, and I will not be on the WFP line for the general,” she said of the Working Families Party in a video posted on Twitter late Tuesday. “We simply do not have the resources to fight all fights at the same time.”
Her decision will avoid an expensive and contentious general election clash with primary winner Dan Goldman, a 46-year-old Levi Strauss & Co. heir and Donald Trump impeachment prosecutor, to represent the overwhelmingly Democratic district, which includes lower Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn.
Niou, who won 23.7% of Aug. 23 votes to Goldman’s 25.7%, previously said she was discussing how best to represent the district with the Working Families Party and community members. Progressives have said that Goldman’s spending gave him an unfair advantage.
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The Working Families Party, a progressive political party founded in New York more than 20 years ago, has the ability to run a candidate on its line in the general election. The party had a Tuesday deadline to add a new candidate, after US Representative Mondaire Jones declined the slot late last month.
Niou, a 39-year-old Taiwanese-American immigrant, will close out her state assembly term this year and did not say what her next steps would be.
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