The candidates hoping to represent New York’s 12th Congressional District sat shoulder-to-shoulder in a wood-paneled room on the fifth floor of the New York Society for Ethical Culture, a white stone building just off Central Park. They squirmed in their seats as the temperature outside hit 95, waiting for an unscreened Q&A from the nicest no-nonsense crowd on the Upper West Side: members of the League of Women Voters.
Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of President John F. Kennedy, stretched out his long legs and leaned away from State Assemblyman Micah Lasher, the veteran state legislator endorsed by outgoing Congressman Jerry Nadler. Assemblyman Alex Bores, the man at the center of an AI proxy war, gave a friendly fist bump to George Conway, the former Republican whose campaign in this Democratic primary has been fixated on impeaching President Donald Trump. Five other candidates vying for the job, including public health researcher Nina Schwalbe, sat up there too—relieved to finally be invited to a forum, unlucky to be running in one of the most crowded, chaotic, and colorful races of the cycle.
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