Progressive's SHOCKING Election Win
Tiffany Cabán is set to beat the establishment candidate in the race for Queens District Attorney. Brooke Thomas, John Iadarola, and Nando Vila, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. MORE TYT: https://tyt.com/trial
Read more here: https://theintercept.com/2019/06/26/t...
“AS ELECTION RESULTS in the Queens district attorney’s Democratic primary race began coming in Tuesday evening, it was looking quite good for Melinda Katz, the Queens borough president who had the backing of the famous Queens machine. That supporting cast included every local member of the congressional delegation (save one), as well as the most famous ex-member, the one-time king of Queens, Joe Crowley.
Crowley lost his seat in a stunner a year ago this week, and a shock was in store for Katz, too. As the votes continued to be tallied, Tiffany Cabán, running on a radical decarceration platform, surged into the lead, and supporters of Cabán erupted. She held the lead through the night and declared victory just before midnight, with 99 percent of the precincts reporting, holding on to a lead of 1,090 votes. The outstanding precincts were all in Jackson Heights, a Cabán stronghold, and there don’t appear to be enough absentee ballots outstanding to swing the election.
A local contest that typically has low voter turnout and gets little attention from national media drew endorsements from two of the leading Democratic presidential candidates, not to mention John Legend, along with shocking, if muted, backing from the New York Times editorial board— all for underdog public defender Tiffany Cabán.”
Hosts: Brooke Thomas, John Iadarola, Nando Vila
Cast: Brooke Thomas, John Iadarola, Nando Vila
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