{"id":188293,"date":"2026-04-07T14:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188293\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:10:07","slug":"reynoso-secures-queens-democratic-party-endorsement-for-ny-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/188293\/","title":{"rendered":"Reynoso secures Queens Democratic Party endorsement for NY-7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BROOKLYN \u2014 BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT Antonio Reynoso won the Queens County Democratic Party\u2019s endorsement in the race to succeed Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez in New York\u2019s 7th Congressional District, the party confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityandstateny.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/reynoso-quietly-secures-queens-dems-endorsement-ny-7\/412637\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">City &amp; State<\/a>. The vote took place in early February, but the Reynoso campaign did not publicize it \u2014 an awkward fit for a candidate who co-founded the New Kings Democrats to reform Brooklyn machine politics.<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement puts <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/tag\/antonio-reynoso\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reynoso<\/a>, who formerly represented part of Ridgewood in the City Council, ahead of two Queens-based opponents: <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/358756\/dsa-sets-sights-on-brooklyn-assembly-seats-and-open-house-race-in-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Assemblymember Claire Valdez<\/a>, backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/366058\/julie-won-enters-crowded-race-to-replace-velazquez-in-ny-7\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Councilmember Julie Won<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Won told City &amp; State she never sought the county party\u2019s support, while Valdez noted she won her Assembly seat without it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BROOKLYN \u2014 BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT Antonio Reynoso won the Queens County Democratic Party\u2019s endorsement in the race to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2898,3302,9,24,29446,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-188293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-antonio-reynoso","9":"tag-breaking","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-ny-7","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188293","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=188293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}