Who will replace longtime Representative Jerry Nadler in New York's 12th Congressional District, which spans Midtown, the Upper East Side, and the Upper West Side?
There's a crowded field in the Democratic primary for the state's richest, and one of its bluest, districts—including Assemblymember Alex Bores, Kennedy scion Jack Schlossberg, George Conway, and Assemblymember Micah Lasher, Nadler's former aide, plus public health expert Nina Schwalbe, civil rights attorney Laura Dunn, and software engineer Chris Diep.
The latest poll, from Emerson College and published on May 21, shows Lasher with a slim lead ahead of Bores, with Schlossberg and Conway rounding out the top four. But a lot can change—according to that poll, 32 percent of voters remain undecided.
Last night, the four leading candidates engaged in their first televised debate, where Schlossberg and Lasher took aim at Bores, a former Palantir employee who's since become a sharp critic of AI, over the support he's received from super PACs with ties to Anthropic. (Bores has also been attacked by a super PAC funded by Open AI, turning his candidacy and the primary race into a proxy battle in the war being waged by the two tech companies.)
But what's on the minds of NY-12 voters?
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