{"id":380666,"date":"2026-10-23T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380666\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T10:16:08","slug":"could-nyc-have-the-most-powerful-positions-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/380666\/","title":{"rendered":"Could NYC have the most powerful positions in Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early voting kicks off this weekend. Could two politicians from Brooklyn soon lead the House and Senate?<\/p>\n<p>If Democrats flip the House, Hakeem Jeffries could become the country\u2019s first Black speaker. Retaking the Senate could put Chuck Schumer back in charge of that chamber. Key House races in the Hudson Valley, on Long Island and in Queens could help determine whether Democrats regain control.<\/p>\n<p>Political reporters Bobby Cuza and Kelly Mena and political director Bob Hardt break down the battle for Congress just days before the midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>ABOUT THE SHOW<\/p>\n<p>What happens when three New York reporters sit in a (small) room and talk politics? Join the NY1 political team each week for a conversation where no topic is off-limits and everything is on the record.\u200b<\/p>\n<p>HOW TO LISTEN<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/podcast\/id1415190317?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">APPLE PODCASTS\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2VeZ7CVJCmXdkZROj5JWVd?si=KYih830aSCS2M2VEGuIXEQ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SPOTIFY<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/spectrum-news-ny1\/off-topic-on-politics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">STITCHER<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/offtopiconpolitics.spectrumnews.libsynpro.com\/rss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early voting kicks off this weekend. Could two politicians from Brooklyn soon lead the House and Senate? If&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[109,10075,9369,25,9370,9,24,55,54,12,56,10074,87,380,27],"class_list":["post-380666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-off-topic-on-politics","tag-app-podcasts","tag-app-top-stories","tag-auto-publish-podcast","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-off-topic-on-politics","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380666","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=380666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}