{"id":278565,"date":"2026-06-26T01:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278565\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T01:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T01:59:23","slug":"what-are-claire-valdezs-priorities-for-congress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/278565\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Claire Valdez\u2019s priorities for Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"

State Assemblywoman Claire Valdez is trading in the state Capitol for the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday night, Valdez defeated three other opponents, including Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, City Councilwoman Julie Won and Vichal Kumar.<\/p>\n

She is now the Democratic nominee for the 7th Congressional District<\/a>, which spans parts of Brooklyn and Queens.<\/p>\n

Valdez is a democratic socialist who was endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. She is also taking over for longtime Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez, who has represented the district since 1993<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Valdez joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on \u201cInside City Hall\u201d Thursday to talk about her primary win.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think now is an opportunity for us to say, \u2018We\u2019re going to prioritize rebuilding the labor movement and getting every single worker into a union.\u2019 And that\u2019s going to be priority number one for me when I\u2019m in office,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I hope to continue to organize both inside the halls of power but certainly on the outside too to make sure that our movement stays rounded in that belief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Assemblywoman Claire Valdez is trading in the state Capitol for the U.S. Capitol. On Tuesday night, Valdez…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[378,25,313,38490,377,379,9,24,55,54,12,56,108,27,200],"class_list":["post-278565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-inside-city-hall","tag-app-top-stories","tag-deanna-garcia","tag-decision-2026","tag-inside-city-hall-segments","tag-inside-city-hall-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278565","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=278565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}