Nadler Defeats Maloney In Contentious Dem Primary

The New York Times reports:

Representative Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, handily defeated his longtime congressional neighbor, Carolyn B. Maloney, in a bruising three-way primary battle on Tuesday that was preordained to end one of the powerful Democrats’ political careers.

The star-crossed skirmish in the heart of Manhattan was unlike any New York City — or the Democratic Party writ large — had seen in recent memory.

Though few ideological differences were at stake, it pitted two committee chairs who have served side by side in Washington since the 1990s against each other, and cleaved party faithful into rival factions.

Politico reports:

The result ended a cutthroat campaign that forced two powerful committee chairs to duke it out for their final years in Congress. The new district combines Manhattan’s West Side — which has reliably backed Nadler for decades — with the East Side that Maloney has represented for just as long.

The race — one of the most closely watched in New York this cycle — effectively ends Maloney’s long career in politics, sending the 76-year-old fixture home after 30 years in the House of Representatives.

First elected in 1992 when she defeated a Republican incumbent, Maloney rose to prominence through her fight for expanded health care access for 9/11 first responders and campaigned on her promise to champion stronger abortion protections.