{"id":132688,"date":"2026-02-13T17:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132688\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:45:11","slug":"nine-democrats-take-the-stage-and-the-fight-to-succeed-nadler-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/132688\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Democrats Take the Stage \u2014 and the Fight to Succeed Nadler Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine Democratic candidates hoping to replace longtime Congressman Jerry Nadler took the stage Thursday night before a packed lecture hall on the Upper West Side, in what felt like the clearest sign yet that the race for the 12th District has truly begun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_5742-Democratic-Formum-NY-12.jpg\" alt=\"Democratic Forum NY-12\" class=\"wp-image-129542\"\/>The forum for Democratic candidates to succeed Congressman Jerry Nadler last night. Photo: Phil O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour forum \u2014 jointly hosted by Broadway Democrats, Hell\u2019s Kitchen Democrats and Columbia University College Democrats \u2014 drew a crowd that packed the venue, plus another 400 viewers on Zoom. Attendees heard from Micah Bergdale, Alex Bores, George Conway, Laura Dunn, Jami Floyd, Micah Lasher, Jack Schlossberg, Nina Schwalbe and Matthew Shurka, all vying to succeed Nadler in a district that has not seen a competitive open race in decades.<\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to verify and manage your account.<\/p>\n<p>An account was already registered with this email. Please check your inbox for an authentication link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nine Democratic candidates hoping to replace longtime Congressman Jerry Nadler took the stage Thursday night before a packed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49582,75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-132688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-election2026","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-manhattan-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}