The Left Has No Easy Choice in NY-12

For left-wing voters across the district, the race offers disappointment, ambivalence and no clear political home.

(From left: Nina Schwalbe, Jack Schlossberg, Assemblymember Alex Bores and Assemblymember Micah Lasher)

NY-12 is not a test of whether the Left can win a Manhattan congressional primary. The Left has already failed to field a financially competitive candidate. The real test is whether an energized Left that ushered Mayor Zohran Mamdani into NY-12’s most …