An op-ed running in central Queens does not just want Grace Meng to win her June 23 primary. It wants her to crush it. In a June 3 opinion piece in the Queens Jewish Link, the writer tells the district’s Jewish voters that the goal is not merely reelecting the 13-year incumbent but running up the score, in the writer’s own words, “making sure that she wins with a comfortable margin so that the DSA will not try to run again in this district on any level, city, state, or federal.” The op-ed says so directly: a big enough win is meant to deter the next challenge.

Early voting is already underway. New York’s Democratic primary runs through June 21 at sites across the five boroughs, with primary day on Tuesday, June 23, according to the NYC Board of Elections schedule reported by CBS New York. NY-06 sits entirely inside Queens, covering Flushing, Elmhurst, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens, Bayside, Woodside, Jackson Heights and more, per the official U.S. Census Bureau district map.

Meng is the incumbent, and her roots in the district run deep. She was born in Queens in 1975, raised in Bayside and Flushing, won a State Assembly seat in 2008, and in 2012 became the first Asian American elected to Congress from New York, taking office in January 2013, per the U.S. House Biographical Directory. According to the Queens Jewish Link, her district work has included pushing to reopen the LIRR station in Elmhurst, funding a childcare center at Queensborough Community College, and backing programs at the New York Hall of Science tied to NASA’s Artemis III mission. She now chairs the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus.