Here in New York, former middle school principal Jamaal Bowman has taken a large lead for the Democratic Party’s nomination for the 16th Congressional District in Westchester County and the Bronx over 16-term Congressmember Eliot Engel, the powerful chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Bowman is running on a Green New Deal, Medicare for All platform, and recently joined protests demanding an end to racism and police brutality. In New York’s 14th Congressional District, democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fended off a challenge by former CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, winning the Democratic Party’s nomination in a landslide.