Rep. Lauren Boebert celebrates winning Colorado primary
By Richard Pollina

New Yorkers headed to the polls Tuesday to cast their votes in primary elections for members of Congress, the state Assembly and state Senate.
The big race to watch — not just by NY but the whole country as well — was the 16th Congressional District covering parts of the Bronx and Westchester, where Westchester County Executive George Latimer handily unseated embattled far-left Rep. Jamaal Bowman.
The “Squad” congressman was elected in 2018 during Donald Trump’s presidency, but his most infamous act as a US rep will likely go down as the time he pulled a Capitol Hill fire alarm during a government shutdown vote.
This live blog has ended. Scroll down for results, photos, analysis and more from New York’s primary election, and other primaries across the US.
We'll let Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) have the last word in wishing Rep. Jamaal Bowman a fond farewell from Congress. Massie and Bowman got into a shouting match off the House floor last year over potential gun control legislation in the wake of the Covenant School shooting in Nashville. On Tuesday night, Massie joked upon hearing the news of Bowman's loss: "I’m going to miss our informal chitchats in the hallways." I’m going to miss our informal chitchats in the hallways.pic.twitter.com/3ZRKzkwIdoRep. Lauren Boebert celebrates winning Colorado primary
By Richard Pollina 

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie wishes Bowman farewell, recalls shouting match
By Josh Christenson
We kicked off this blog with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo exhorting voters to back Latimer. Now, Cuomo has responded to Rep. Jamaal Bowman's loss.
Congratulations @LatimerforNY.
— Andrew Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) June 26, 2024
Tonight middle school children who pull fire alarms & do it while denying rape as a weapon of war lost. And progress won.
You can’t be a real progressive if you don’t make “ progress”. Now we can! https://t.co/oZkGtLIwzU
New York State Democratic Committee Chairman Jay Jacobs was a very happy camper when The Post caught up with him Tuesday night.
"The pendulum has swung back," Jacobs said. "The Democratic voters made clear that they favor a moderate approach."
Jacobs said the night's primary results, most notably wins by George Latimer in the Bronx and Westchester and John Avlon on Long Island, will make it harder for Republicans to paint Democrats as hard-left loons in a general election.

"It was a very good night," he said, adding that Latimer took the proper approach on the Israel-Hamas war by taking the same basic position as President Biden, while defeated Rep. Jamaal Bowman went all-in on Israel bashing.
At Bowman's watch party at the The Grand Roosevelt Ballroom in Yonkers, supporters were shocked and disappointed by the results — telling The Post Bowman’s loss was the result of a nefarious plan pushed by the “rich and powerful.”
“When the rich and the powerful, you know, sink so much money into it… it's not unexpected that they will win the race,” said Nelson Mar. “It's disappointing.”



Susan Bonadonna echoed Mar’s comments.
“It’s just so unfair how much the money probably influenced it,” she said.
Democratic New York state Sen. John Mannion -- accused of berating his staffers and creating a hostile workplace -- will rep the party in the attempt to flip the hotly contested 22nd Congressional District seat.
Mannion managed to get just over 60% of the vote in Tuesday's primary over Sarah Klee Hood, who logged just under 38% of support from Dem voters.

The House district in Central New York, currently held by Republican Rep. Brandon Williams, is largely believed to be one of the more vulnerable house seats for the GOP in November.
Mannion will now head into the midterm race with a series of distributing allegations from several people who worked in his office.
The staffers alleged Mannion's verbal abuse at work was so traumatizing it made at least one person “physically ill."
The far-left group Our Revolution, founded by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) praised ousted Rep. Jamaal Bowman's "moral courage" and blamed the "broken system" of Democratic primaries for his loss.
“Tonight’s outcome puts the glaring hypocrisy of Democratic Party elites on full display,” said Joseph Geevarghese, the executive director of Our Revolution, before going on to name-check former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and pro-Israel groups for supporting George Latimer.
“Jamaal Bowman had the moral courage to speak out against his constituents’ taxpayer dollars funding war crimes in Gaza," Geevarghese went on. "As a result, AIPAC and its MAGA Republican-funded super PAC flooded the airwaves with an unprecedented $14.5 million worth of attack ads against him.
“Rest assured that millions of young, diverse, and progressive voters across the country see these stunning contradictions, and they are disgusted that Party leaders are sitting idly by as special interests unseat a popular and progressive Black [sic] man from Congress."
Rep. John Curtis, who represents Utah's 3rd Congressional District in the US House of Representatives, won the Beehive State's Republican primary to succeed outgoing Sen. Mitt Romney Tuesday.
Curtis received 52.3% of the vote, defeating former Provo Mayor Trent Staggs (28.2%) and Brad Wilson (13.4%), the former Republican speaker of the Utah House of Representatives.
Romney, 77, announced in September 2023 he would step down from his seat after having served just one Senate term, citing age concerns.
The upstate DSA-backed lawmaker Sarahana Shrestha will represent the Democratic party in the race for New York's 103rd Assembly District seat.
The incumbent Shrestha came in with nearly 65% of the vote while her challenger Gabi Madden grabbed just over 35% in Tuesday's primary.
Shrestha, a justice and climate activist, won her seat in a surprise victory in 2020 over longtime Assemblyman Kevin Cahill.
Ousted "Squad" Rep. Jamaal Bowman was his own worst enemy — and his inflammatory anti-Israel statements in a district that cared about the Jewish State were just a part of it.

Voters and emergency responders who don't follow politics closely were baffled and outraged that Bowman pleaded guilty to falsely pulling a fire alarm in a Capitol Office building ahead of a House vote to avert a government shutdown.
The whole incident was captured on video.
Tom Von Essen, the NYC Fire Department commissioner during the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, said the fire alarm caper coupled with Bowman peddling 9/11 conspiracy theories on a blog when he previously was a Bronx middle school principal were unbecoming a member of Congress.
Bowman had claimed that terror kingpin Osama bin Laden, a Saudi native, was “blamed” for the attacks as an excuse to wage war in Afghanistan, when in fact the terror leader had openly taken credit for the massacre.
“Bowman is definitely unfit to be in Congress. He’s definitely someone we don’t need,” Von Essen previously told The Post.
Last week, Bowman belatedly apologized at long last after initially claiming that reports of rape and child murder during Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack against Israel were a “lie.”
Critics said the mea culpa was too little, too late -- he had already burned his bridges with his pro-Israel and Jewish constituents in New York's 16th Congressional District.
Voters were also insulted after hearing that Bowman once reportedly asked a Jewish leader for a picture of the two of them together to prove that “I’m friends with Jewish people” — prompting outrage from rabbis in his Westchester County district last week.
“One hundred percent I believe that happened,” Rabbi Jonathan Morgenstern, head of Young Israel of Scarsdale, a modern orthodox synagogue, said of the text exchange.
“Bowman tokenizes the Jewish people. Bowman went from bad to worse,” Morgenstern said.
“I’m looking forward to taking a picture of Jewish leaders enthusiastically watching Bowman’s concession speech,” quipped Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis.
New York has 26 congressional districts. That means 26 House Republican primaries, 25 of which were uncontested Tuesday night.
The one that was contested, NY-24, was barely a contest at all.
Rep. Claudia Tenney won the GOP nod in her Finger Lakes district, easily defeating attorney and businessman Mario Fratto, who challenged Tenney from her right wing.
Tenney's district is considered a safe Republican seat, making her the odds-on favorite to win a third consecutive term after previously representing NY-22 between 2017 and 2019.
Former Rudy Giuliani speech writer and CNN analyst John Avlon nabbed the Democratic nomination for New York's 1st Congressional District on Long Island.
The centrist Avlon was able to easily win over the Stony Brook University chemistry professor, Nancy Goroff.
Avlon came in with 70% of the vote while Goroff got just under 30%, according to election results.
Goroff ran in 2020 for the same seat but was beaten by Republican Lee Zeldin.