{"id":83840,"date":"2025-12-29T20:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83840\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T20:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T20:01:07","slug":"races-to-watch-in-2026-that-could-alter-political-landscape-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/83840\/","title":{"rendered":"Races to watch in 2026 that could alter political landscape in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Queens is set to be home to a number of fascinating political races in 2026 as a number of long-term incumbents face challenges from young and emerging politicians in the borough\u2019s political scene.<\/p>\n<p>A number of vacant seats in the state legislature and federal government have also sparked highly competitive races in several progressive districts across the borough, not least for the Assembly District 36 seat vacated by Mayor-elect Zohran Mamani in Western Queens.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2025\/12\/queens-races-to-watch-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tRaces to watch in 2026 that could alter political landscape in Queens &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Queens is set to be home to a number of fascinating political races in 2026 as a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[40974,2898,24757,40981,40975,9440,26938,28969,29438,860,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,29440,40976,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-83840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-am-jenifer-rajkumar","9":"tag-antonio-reynoso","10":"tag-assembly-member-stacey-pheffer-amato","11":"tag-assembly-member-jessica-gonzalez-rojas","12":"tag-brian-romero","13":"tag-claire-valdez","14":"tag-congressmember-nydia-velazquez","15":"tag-david-weprin","16":"tag-diana-moreno","17":"tag-jessica-ramos","18":"tag-new-york","19":"tag-new-york-city","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nyc","22":"tag-queens","23":"tag-queens-headlines","24":"tag-queens-news","25":"tag-rana-abdelhamid","26":"tag-toby-ann-stavisky","27":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83840","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=83840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}