In addition to Vel\u00e1zquez, Meng has support from the major establishment faces in her Flushing-based district and across Queens, but also the progressive wing like State Senator John Liu and Councilmember Shekar Krishnan. <\/p>\n
Krishnan\u2019s endorsement was particularly notable, because Park was his former chief of staff. <\/p>\n
Park, a Flushing born son of Korean immigrants, launched his campaign as a progressive, anti-establishment foil to Meng\u2019s more than 15 years of staunch mainstream Democratic support. <\/p>\n
Although the young insurgent has struggled to pick up steam, he has scored some minor endorsements, but none from any major local figures or prominent donors. <\/p>\n
According to the most recent campaign finance data, which covers donations for the last three months of 2025, Meng raised $919,456 to Park\u2019s $140,000. <\/p>\n
Park told the Eagle he never expected to challenge Meng in endorsements or funding, but hoped to compete with her on the ground with door-knocking and community advocacy. <\/p>\n
\u201cShe has political connections, our campaign has the people,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Park is attempting to run a staunchly progressive campaign more aligned with the democratic socialist ideas that propelled Zohran Mamdani to victory in November. <\/p>\n
He has criticized Meng for taking money from wealthy donors and lobbying groups, and has highlighted her relationship with pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s unclear if his messaging will work in NY-6. <\/p>\n
Political strategist Trip Yang, who has worked on campaigns in and around Flushing for years, doesn’t think Park\u2019s pitch will resonate with the district\u2019s voters. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s running in an imaginary, leftist DSA district,\u201d Yang, who has donated money to Meng\u2019s campaign, told the Eagle. \u201cHe’s running an activist online vibes campaign that might be effective if he were a DSA member, running an imaginary DSA district, but he’s not a DSA member, and there’s no imaginary DSA district.\u201d <\/p>\n
Although Mamdani won the congressional district in the June primary, he did so by less than a percentage point. In November, former Governor Andrew Cuomo carried the district by 10 points. <\/p>\n
Yang thinks the ball game is already over for Park, and predicted that Meng will win by 30 or 40 points in June. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s some online chatter, but what we’ve seen is online chatter by itself is not enough to propel a campaign,\u201d he said. \u201cYou do need political support, and crucially, you need fundraising to get your message out.\u201d <\/p>\n
Earlier this month, it seemed for a moment Park was primed for a campaign spark with an endorsement from the powerful Working Families Party. <\/p>\n
A WFP endorsement would have legitimized his campaign, and injected it with funding and manpower from what could be considered the third most powerful party in New York State. <\/p>\n
\u201cI was very confident,\u201d he told the Eagle, remembering that he thought his campaign had shown true viability. <\/p>\n
Despite receiving overwhelming support from the local Queens branch of the WFP and affiliate groups, the statewide WFP declined to back Park. <\/p>\n
Park believes that the WFP was lobbied away from supporting his campaign, costing him the endorsement. <\/p>\n
He told the Eagle he was disappointed by the outcome. <\/p>\n
\u201cI have no gripes with the power and the face of the Working Families Party,\u201d he said. \u201cI am, frankly, disappointed with the decisions of the leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spokespeople for the WFP did not respond to requests for comment, and members of the Queens WFP branch declined to comment. <\/p>\n
This story has been updated to reflect that political strategist Trip Yang has donated to the Grace Meng camapaign. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In addition to Vel\u00e1zquez, Meng has support from the major establishment faces in her Flushing-based district and across…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-180898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180898","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=180898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}