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| Daniel Goldman, left, and Yuh-Line Niou. |
Tuesday night, former federal prosecutor Daniel Goldman, declared himself the winner of New York's Congressional District 10 Democratic Primary, beating his closest rival, Yuh-Line Niou, by about 1100 votes.
Within hours, the Associated Press and other mainstream media, dubbed Goldman the winner after 95% of the votes counted
With about 7,000 absentee ballots still to be tabulated, Niou has not conceded. While most observers believe it would be difficult for Niou to make up the difference as the uncounted votes will be split among the 13 Democrat candidates.
The Washington Post on Thursday reported that Niou, who is the current Assemblymember for the area, is considering running against Goldman in November as a candidate for the New York Working Families Party.
In the primary, progressive voters were split among Niou, Rep. Mondaire Jones and City Councilmember Carlina Rivera, who finished who are expected to come in second, third and fourth, respectively when all the votes are counted.As of now, Goldman, heir to the Livi-Strauss fortune, has 16,686 votes; Niou,15,380; Jones, 11,777; and Rivera, 10,985. Assemblymember JoAnn Simon is standing in fifth spot with 3,991 votes.
In the final days of the campaign, Niou teamed up with Jones and Rivera in joint appearances and attacked Goldman, who spent millions of dollars of his fortune to finance his campaign. Observers assume that the progressive voters who went with Jones and Rivera in the Primary, would transfer their votes to Niou if she decides to run against Goldman in November.
The New York Working Families Party hasn’t said whether the party will have a candidate in November, but it endorsed Niou's candidacy for the Democratic Party Primary. After Election Day Tuesday, it continued to praise Niou and noted that there were votes that still hadn’t been counted.
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