Incumbent Carolyn Maloney defended her seat against 34-year-old Suraj Patel, a former Obama campaign staffer. The pandemic and recent protests have influenced his platform, and the race is heated as Maloney … That means Wednesday would have been the earliest they could have been counted. Unlike Maloney, most of her challengers are outside of New York City's political establishment, and are running to the left of the incumbent on a number of issues.Hillary Clinton used to say on her campaign, "Take attacks by your opponent seriously, not personally." And check out all of my policies, earned media, and differences with the incumbent at SurajPatel.nyc. He had 40 percent of the primary vote to her 59 percent in 2018. Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney downplayed her challenger Suraj Patel’s fundraising in an interview on Thursday, saying his campaign disclosures contained a large number of people from his home state of Indiana and “a huge amount of the name Patel.” That is the baseline of what you deserve, and corporate PAC money has exacerbated the issues that have not gotten better during the Representative's 28-year tenure - including the growth of mass incarceration, which the incumbent played a role in through her vote for the 1994 Crime Bill. Attorney, business ethics professor at NYU Stern, Obama campaigns, Obama White House, Clinton campaign.We are in a historic, change moment for our City and nation. It's become too expensive to go to college, and too costly not to. Suraj Patel is a child of immigrants, lawyer and former Obama aide running against Maloney for the second time. Maloney has served in the House of Representatives since being elected to what was then New York's 15th Congresional District in 1992. Patel, 36, a hotel magnate who worked for former President Barack Obama, garnered 1,365 more votes than Maloney in … After three decades of no progress, and three decades of the same representation, we need new leaders with vision that is bold and progressive. Suraj is a progressive Obama Democrat running to get Corporate PAC money out of politics and to restore the Promise of New York - education, opportunity, and mobility - for all of us. New York-12 challenger Suraj Patel is running against incumbent Carolyn Maloney again following a good showing in 2018. Representative Maloney has spent her career as a conservative Democrat in Washington expanding policing, bringing back federal dollars to incarcerate undocumented immigrants, and surrounding herself with folks like Rudy Giuliani and Ray Kelly, both of whom were instrumental in creating and expanding stop and frisk in NYC. The Associated Press expects a delay in vote tabulation and race calls because a large number of voters cast absentee ballots.