{"id":276078,"date":"2026-06-24T02:36:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276078\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T02:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:36:44","slug":"micah-lasher-wins-crowded-democratic-primary-for-manhattan-u-s-house-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276078\/","title":{"rendered":"Micah Lasher wins crowded Democratic primary for Manhattan U.S. House seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"8sg85\">Micah Lasher won the eight-way Democratic primary to represent New York\u2019s 12th Congressional District on Tuesday, outpacing the crowded field in a race that saw the <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/how-big-ai-money-is-shaping-the-marquee-manhattan-congressional-primary\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">giants of the artificial intelligence industry spend tens of millions of dollars<\/a> trying to influence the outcome.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"77po6\">Lasher\u2019s victory over Assemblymember Alex Bores, Kennedy family scion Jack Schlossberg and a handful of other candidates puts him in a position to represent one of the nation\u2019s most-sought-after districts, which includes all of Midtown Manhattan and the Upper East and Upper West sides.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2sn05\">The Associated Press called the race for Lasher just after 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"abr5c\">The race drew more than $39 million in spending from outside interests, according to Federal Election Commission records. That includes $10 million from former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who funded a super PAC supporting Lasher, his former aide.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"5n4hs\">But the bulk of the outside spending \u2014 more than $20 million \u2014 came from PACs funded by AI executives, fueling a barrage of glossy mailers and advertisements aimed at propping up or tearing down Bores, who passed a regulatory bill in Albany last year that split the industry.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"eo36d\">With the win, Lasher sets himself up to succeed Rep. Jerry Nadler, a Democrat who has represented the Upper West Side in Congress for more than three decades.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6l08c\">Nadler has been a longtime foe of President Donald Trump and served as the top-ranking Democrat on the powerful House Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2v8og\">This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Micah Lasher won the eight-way Democratic primary to represent New York\u2019s 12th Congressional District on Tuesday, outpacing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-276078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276078","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=276078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}