NY-12: Candidates in NYC's wealthiest district set to debate in race to replace Rep. Jerry Nadler
Five candidates for the open seat in New York’s Upper East and West Side congressional district will face off Tuesday night in the final broadcast debate before the Democratic primary.
Polls show a tight race to replace retiring U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, with heavy spending by outside Super PACs in the city's wealthiest congressional district.
The debate is being co-hosted by WNYC and Spectrum News NY1 at Baruch College. The candidates for New York's 12th Congressional district are Upper West Side Assemblymember Micah Lasher, Upper East Side Assemblymember Alex Bores, former Republican turned anti-Trump Democrat George Conway, social media influencer and Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg, and public health expert Nina Schwalbe.
The contest has become something of a proxy war in the national debate over how to regulate AI technology. Federal campaign finance data shows a Super PAC with ties to AI venture capital investor Andreessen Horowitz and OpenAI has allocated over $10 million to oppose Bores.
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