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  ‘We just need a win’: The left unites to take down Eliot Engel
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AuthorHolly Otterbein
News DateWednesday, June 17, 2020 01:15:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionDesperate for victory after watching the presidential nomination slip through their fingers, progressives have found a new cause to rally around.

Across the country, they’re channeling their grief, volunteer muscle and small-dollar donations into Jamaal Bowman, a left-wing candidate in New York trying to oust decades-long incumbent Congressman Eliot Engel.

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, all of whom have shown caution in the past about backing primary challengers to incumbent Democrats, have endorsed Bowman. Justice Democrats and the Working Families Party, two left-wing groups that took different paths during the presidential race, announced they are coming together to spend more than a half-million dollars to elect Bowman. Former aides to Sanders and Warren have also publicly lined up behind Bowman.
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