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Alice Herman and Will Craft

Race to unseat New York progressive ‘most expensive House primary ever’

Composite image of two men. On left is bald Black man in glasses, wearing gray suit and red tie, and on left is middle-aged white man with gray hair, black suit and striped tie.
Jamaal Bowman, left, and George Latimer are competing for New York’s 16th congressional district. Photograph: Alamy/AP

The primary for New York’s 16th congressional district, which takes place on Tuesday, has drawn record-breaking spending, with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) and a cryptocurrency Super Pac behind the lion’s share of the funding.

AdImpact, a group tracking political advertisements, reported earlier this week that the race between the incumbent progressive representative Jamaal Bowman and his challenger, George Latimer, has become “the most expensive House primary ever”, with more than $23m spent on ads so far.

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