New York’s famously do-nothing senator, Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, could face a bruising primary from the left insiders, insiders say.
Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres has also been floated as a possible opponent. He has a respectable $3.8 million in the campaign bank.
“There are rumblings in his circles pushing him to eventually go for the Senate,” said a person close to Torres, who added the congressman was lukewarm on the idea and currently more focused on growing his seniority in the House. Torres recently donated $10,000 to Gillibrand’s re-election fund.Tom Williams
“I don’t think it’s impossible,” Jeremy Cohen, co-chairman of the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, said of a progressive primary against Gillibrand, adding that the Big Apple’s card-carrying reds would be watching the senator closely to see if she would be a champion of their causes — “like Bernie Sanders.”Experts said Gillibrand was vulnerable for a variety of reasons. For her entire career in Washington D.C.
While Gillibrand has made a name for herself as a champion of certain marquee liberal causes, she has not distinguished herself as a “pot-hole” senator like Schumer or his predecessor Al D’Amato, critics say.“She is a policy person on issues which New Yorkers care about — like women’s issues and reforming the code of military justice — but the average person in the South Bronx is not thinking about this,” said Hank Sheinkopf, a longtime Democratic strategist.
Others noted that Gillibrand, an upstater, didn’t have a natural power base in New York City and was also deflated by a
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