Grace Meng has held her Queens seat for 13 years. A former diplomat is trying to take it Tuesday.
Rep. Grace Meng, who has held her Queens congressional seat since 2013, faces a progressive challenger on Tuesday’s primary ballot after he resigned from the Foreign Service over Trump’s immigration policy.
Grace Meng has held her Queens seat for 13 years. A former diplomat is trying to take it Tuesday.
Rep. Grace Meng, who has held her Queens congressional seat since 2013, faces a progressive challenger on Tuesday’s primary ballot after he resigned from the Foreign Service over Trump’s immigration policy.
Central Queens has a real primary on Tuesday, and most of the neighborhood has no idea. Representative Grace Meng, who has held the NY-06 seat since 2013, is facing a Democratic challenger running hard to her left, and in a district this blue the primary is effectively the whole election.
The challenger is Chuck Park, a former U.S. Foreign Service officer who is now running on a straight progressive platform: Medicare for All, universal childcare, better transit, and a pointed anti-establishment, anti-big-donor message aimed at a long-tenured incumbent. His pitch is that a seven-term member of Congress in a deep-blue district should be doing more and fighting harder.
Meng is one of the most established figures in Queens politics, the first Asian American to represent New York in Congress, with more than a decade of incumbency…
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