NJ-12: Progressives seek to consolidate hungry base as primary day approaches
The campaign to succeed Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Ewing) in New Jersey’s 12th congressional district has drawn campaigns from a dozen Democrats, including a pair of progressives with outsider bona fides.
Adam Hamawy, a former Army combat surgeon who helped save the life of Senator Tammy Duckworth, is a political newcomer, but his staunch progressivism and criticism of Israel have led to a surge in the polls and a guest appearance from a famous left-wing commentator.
Sue Altman, an organizer who helped kickstart the reform movement that has dominated the Garden State’s politics in recent years, has hit the trail with the backing of officials and organizations who laud her advocacy over the last 15 years.
Both are on the ballot for Tuesday’s primary, when an antsy Democratic electorate must sift through a race that also contains a state assemblywoman, two mayors, a county commissioner, and more. On Saturday, in two events showing the contrast that can exist even within the progressive wing of the party, Hamawy and Altman rallied to hype up their supporters before they hit the sidewalks to squeeze every vote out of the 12th district.
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