Millions of dollars from political action committees may have contributed to challenger George Latimer’s defeat of incumbent Jamaal Bowman in a June 25 Democratic primary.
Update (June 26 at 6:07 pm UTC): An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that Shomari Figures won a primary in the state of California. It has been corrected to a primary in Alabama.
Jamaal Bowman, a House Representative for New York’s 16th Congressional District, has lost the Democratic primary, which could have allowed him to keep his seat in 2025.
According to a June 26 projection from NBC News, Democratic challenger George Latimer will defeat Bowman by roughly 58%–42%, with 84% of the vote reporting at the time of publication. The Fairshake political action committee (PAC) spent more than $2 million on a media campaign opposing Bowman’s reelection — not attacking his record on voting against pro-crypto bills, but claims of “pushing dangerous conspiracy theories.”
