{"id":244058,"date":"2026-05-26T16:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244058\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T16:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:55:43","slug":"w42st-reader-survey-shows-lasher-leading-ny-12-race-with-bores-second-but-many-voters-are-still-in-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/244058\/","title":{"rendered":"W42ST Reader Survey Shows Lasher Leading NY-12 Race, with Bores Second \u2014 but\u00a0Many Voters are Still in Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A W42ST reader survey of 430 respondents shows Micah Lasher leading the Democratic primary race to replace longtime Congressman Jerry Nadler \u2014 with Alex Bores in second place and a significant bloc of readers still undecided.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"1250\" height=\"833\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DSC_5767-Micah-Lasher-Jerry-Nadler.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-144674\"\/>Micah Lasher has been endorsed by Jerry Nadler (left) to succeed him as Congressman for NY-12. Photo: Phil O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the June 23 primary approaching, the survey offers an early snapshot of how politically engaged West Side readers are thinking about a rare open congressional race in New York\u2019s 12th District.<\/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>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img alt=\"Phil O'Brien Portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cropped-Phil-OBrien-Portrait-WB-scaled-1-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publisher &amp; Editor Phil O\u2019Brien is an entrepreneur and journalist. As an international photojournalist, he photographed Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Princess Diana and many others. He built a successful international sports photography agency, EMPICS, that was Getty Images\u2019 major competitor in Europe when it sold. He founded a children\u2019s charity in the UK that has helped young people through sport for over 15 years. Phil has lived in New York since 2012. He founded W42ST in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/w42st.com\/post\/author\/phil\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tMore by Phil O&#8217;Brien\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A W42ST reader survey of 430 respondents shows Micah Lasher leading the Democratic primary race to replace longtime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,49582,9,24,31167,63,87],"class_list":["post-244058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-election2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny-12","tag-nyc","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244058","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=244058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}