State Senate Primaries<\/p>\n
12th Senatorial District: Democrats looking to succeed outgoing state Sen. Michael Gianaris include\u00a0Steven B. Raga<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Aber Kawas<\/a>.<\/p>\n 13th Senatorial District: Democratic incumbent Jessica Ramos is being challenged by Hiram Monserrate and\u00a0Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas<\/a>.<\/p>\n 15th Senatorial District: Incumbent Joseph P. Addabbo Jr. will go up against Albert Baldeo in the Democratic primaries.\n<\/p>\n State Assembly Primaries<\/p>\n 23rd Assembly District: The Democrats seeking to replace outgoing Assemblymember\u00a0Stacey Pheffer Amato<\/a>\u00a0include\u00a0Pesach Osina<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Mike Scala<\/a>.<\/p>\n 26th Assembly District: Republicans Robert J. Speranza and Philip Sean Grillo are seeking their party\u2019s nomination to go up against Democratic incumbent\u00a0Edward Braunstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n 28th Assembly District: Incumbent\u00a0Andrew Hevesi<\/a>\u00a0will look to resecure the Democratic nomination over challenger Jonathan Rinaldi.<\/p>\n 30th Assembly District: With Steven B. Raga set to leave this position to run for Senate, Democratic primary candidates include Somnath Ghimire,\u00a0Patrick Martinez<\/a>\u00a0and Shamsul Haque.<\/p>\n 32nd Assembly District: With Democratic incumbent Vivian Cook not seeking re-election, candidates from the party looking to succeed her include Mohammed J. Molla,\u00a0Latoya L. LeGrand<\/a>,\u00a0Tunisia Morrison<\/a>, Queen Johnson and\u00a0Nathaniel Hezekiah III<\/a>.<\/p>\n 33rd Assembly District: Democratic incumbent Clyde Vanel is facing off against challenger Oster Bryan.\n<\/p>\n 34th Assembly District: With Democratic incumbent Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas now running for Senate, the party candidates who hope to take her place include\u00a0Brian Romero<\/a>\u00a0and Rosa Sanchez.<\/p>\n 36th Assembly District: The former district of Mayor Zohran Mamdani features incumbent\u00a0Diana C. Moreno<\/a>\u00a0facing off against Mary Jobaida and Kevin P. Coenen in the Democratic primaries. Moreno won a special election for the seat last February.<\/p>\n 37th Assembly District: Democratic incumbent Claire Valdez will not be seeking re-election, as she is now running for Congress. Her party\u2019s candidates to replace her include\u00a0Samantha Kattan<\/a>,\u00a0Pia Rahman<\/a>\u00a0and Melissa Orlando.<\/p>\n 38th Assembly District: Democratic incumbent\u00a0Jenifer Rajkumar<\/a>\u00a0is being challenged by\u00a0David Orkin<\/a>, Catalina Cruz and Yonel E. Lettellier Sosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Senate Primaries 12th Senatorial District: Democrats looking to succeed outgoing state Sen. Michael Gianaris include\u00a0Steven B. Raga\u00a0and\u00a0Aber…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[102134,9,24,63,7782,26534,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-275061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-2026-primaries","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-polls","tag-primaries","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275061","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=275061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}