Former Rep. Mondaire Jones is making a comeback bid for a House seat in New York that Democrats need to flip into their column.

Mr. Jones, a Democrat who represented the seventeenth Congressional District from 2021 to 2023, launched a launch video Wednesday that portrays himself as an outsider who will make powerful decisions.

“I’ve never been Washington’s choice. It’s because I stand up to corruption. I battle with Republicans trying to overthrow our democracy & ban abortion, even as I push my party to fight harder for working people,” Mr. Jones tweeted Wednesday.

Mr. Jones’ video describes his humble background within the seventeenth District, which options Rockland and Putnam counties and components of different counties north of New York City. He stated most individuals in Washington, D.C., “have no idea what it’s like to struggle,” and he'll get Congress “back on the side of working people.”

Mr. Jones has a progressive document of backing “Medicare for All” and local weather initiatives, although he additionally backed elevated police funding in President Biden’s infrastructure bundle.

He faces a troublesome major in opposition to Liz Whitmer Gereghty, an schooling advocate and sister of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Ms. Gereghty has been courting the Michigan House delegation for help and can attempt to set up herself in a average lane, based on Politico.

The winner will attempt to unseat Rep. Mike Lawler, a Republican who narrowly defeated Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney as a part of the GOP takeover in final 12 months’s midterm elections.

Redistricting positioned Mr. Maloney, chairman of the House Democrats’ marketing campaign arm, within the seventeenth District final cycle, so Mr. Jones determined to run in a close-by district, solely to lose the first to Rep. Dan Goldman. 

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