{"id":273318,"date":"2026-06-21T18:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273318\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:52:08","slug":"up-close-with-bill-ritter-and-liz-cho-adriano-espillat-mamdani-backed-darializa-avila-chevalier-vie-for-seat-in-ny-13-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/273318\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Close with Bill Ritter and Liz Cho: Adriano Espillat, Mamdani-backed Darializa Avila Chevalier vie for seat in NY-13 primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK CITY (WABC) &#8212; Early voting in New York City ends Sunday. Election day is Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is not on the ballot, could be a deciding factor in several key congressional races. He is supporting three more progressive candidates over the Democratic incumbents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">So, joining us is incumbent Congressman Adriano Espaillat, followed by Darializa Avila Chevalier, a community organizer now challenging Espaillat. As we&#8217;ve said, she has Mamdani&#8217;s endorsement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">We&#8217;ll also sit down with ABC News Washington Bureau Chief Rick Klein and Political Consultant Hank Sheinkopf about this race and the week we&#8217;ve had in politics.<\/p>\n<p>Up Close with Bill Ritter and Liz Cho airs Sunday mornings at 11:00 a.m. on Channel 7, WABC-TV in New York City.SUBSCRIBE TO THE UP CLOSE PODCAST<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/podcasts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Discover more podcasts from abc7NY here<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">WATCH: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Up Close on our Connected TV apps for Fire, Roku, Apple TV and Android TV.  Click here to learn more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/upclose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch more episodes of Up Close<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY (WABC) &#8212; Early voting in New York City ends Sunday. Election day is Tuesday. Mayor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105250,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-273318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-105250","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273318","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=273318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}