Redistricting forced longtime Democratic Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney to vie for the same Manhattan House district this year, setting up a bitter contest between two allies.
Rep. Jerry Nadler won the Democratic primary for a new Manhattan-based House district on Tuesday, defeating Rep. Carolyn Maloney in a heated contest that pitted two longtime lawmakers and former political allies against each other.
Nadler and Maloney were forced to run against each other after a court-appointed expert redrew New York’s congressional map earlier this year, placing Nadler’s stronghold on Manhattan’s West Side and Maloney’s hub on the East Side within the same district. Both lawmakers have served together in the House since the early 1990s and are ideologically aligned on most issues, and in the campaign’s early weeks, they appeared to lament their newfound status as political foes.
