{"id":2268,"date":"2020-06-05T18:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nancy-pelosi-backs-rep-engel-after-aoc-endorses-democratic-challenger\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T15:46:00","slug":"nancy-pelosi-backs-rep-engel-after-aoc-endorses-democratic-challenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nancy-pelosi-backs-rep-engel-after-aoc-endorses-democratic-challenger\/","title":{"rendered":"#Nancy Pelosi backs Rep. Engel after AOC endorses Democratic challenger"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Nancy Pelosi backs Rep. Engel after AOC endorses Democratic challenger<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 5, 2020 |<\/span> 11:46am <\/p>\n

\n Illustrating the divide in the Democratic Party, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has endorsed 16-term incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel (D-Bronx) after progressive darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threw her weight behind his challenger, Jamaal Bowman.<\/p>\n

\u201cI firmly support Eliot Engel for Congress and I support Alexandria for Congress as well,\u201d Pelosi told reporters Thursday. \u201cI think the people of New York are very blessed to have them both in the Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Bronx-Queens congresswoman, who goes by her initials AOC on social media<\/a>, used a series<\/a> of tweets to announce she was endorsing Bowman, 44, a former middle school principal backed by the left-leaning Justice Democrats \u2014 meaning she was trying to oust Engel, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n

The 73-year-old liberal represents a district from parts of The Bronx and Westchester, next door to Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s home base.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis moment requires renewed and revitalized leadership across the country AND at the ballot box,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez, 30, said in a tweet.<\/p>\n

She called Bowman, who is black, \u201ca profound community leader.\u201d Engel\u2019s district has mostly black and Hispanic voters.<\/p>\n

Engel was embroiled in controversy this week when he was overheard on a hot mic saying he didn\u2019t really care about the looting rocking his constituents.<\/p>\n

During a press conference with local leaders and elected officials, he asked Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. if he could make some remarks at the microphone.<\/p>\n

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Eliot Engel<\/span>Susan Walsh\/AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When Diaz Jr. said there were too many people on the list, Engel mumbled through his face mask: \u201cIf I didn\u2019t have a primary, I wouldn\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was that?\u201d Diaz Jr. asked him, according to the audio captured on a News<\/a> 12 live feed of the event and shared on Twitter by NY1 reporter Emily Ngo.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I didn\u2019t have a primary, I wouldn\u2019t care,\u201d he repeated.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t do that to me,\u201d Diaz Jr. scolded him.<\/p>\n

Political pundits fear Engel is setting himself up to be the next Joe Crowley, the longtime powerful incumbent whom AOC defeated in a stunning 2018 upset in the adjoining district.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Nancy Pelosi backs Rep. Engel after AOC endorses Democratic challenger” June 5, 2020 | 11:46am Illustrating the divide in the Democratic Party, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has endorsed 16-term incumbent Rep. Eliot Engel (D-Bronx) after progressive darling Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threw her weight behind his challenger, Jamaal Bowman. \u201cI firmly support Eliot Engel for Congress…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4309,4308],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-house-speaker-nancy-pelosi-has-endorsed-16-term-incumbent-rep-eliot-engel-after-rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-threw-her-weight-behind-his-challenger","tag-nancy-pelosi-backs-rep-engel-after-aoc-endorses-democratic-challenger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}