Former New York mayor Bill de Blasio announced he is running for Congress in the state’s newly redrawn 10th District. He cast himself as a leader who can quickly get results for New Yorkers still reeling from the pandemic, inflation and other challenges.
The opening for de Blasio to run in the 10th District is a result of a new congressional map drawn by a court-appointed special master earlier this week. The new lines pushed Rep. Jerrold Nadler into a neighboring district, and have forced him into a primary with fellow Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney.
The courts took over redistricting after striking down the congressional map drawn by state Democratic lawmakers as an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander. The Democrats in the state legislature had drawn a map that could have yielded them an additional three seats in Congress. New York’s primaries were originally scheduled for June, but have been pushed back to August as a result of legal wrangling over the congressional map.
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