Several campaigns tell The Indypendent that the winner in the June 22 Democratic primary will need approximately 70,000 votes. How many votes such support will yield remains to be seen.
In recent weeks, Aboushi, one of three decarceral candidates (along with Eliza Orlins and Dan Quart), has picked up high-profile endorsements, including from the Working Families Party, Jumaane Williams, Jamaal Bowman, Cynthia Nixon, and Yuh-Line Niou. “Progressives need to coalesce against a billionaire so there’s no continuation of Vance’s legacy of discriminatory prosecution against people of color and in favor of the wealthy,” says Tahanie Aboushi’s campaign manager Jamarah Hayner, who recently handled George Gascón’s successful left-wing run to become L.A.
If he were shaking things up here, Philadelphia’s radical DA Larry Krasner would be a household name outside of the criminal justice world right now.Īs the June 22 primary race takes off, many criminal justice activists nonetheless fear that Tali Farhadian Weinstein, the candidate most similar to Cy Vance, may emerge victorious in the crowded field. But no office can match Manhattan’s media influence. Over the past few years, a wave of progressive prosecutors has taken over district attorneys’ offices across the country, including recently in L.A. But anytime Vance announced a new policy regarding prosecutions, it got plenty of media attention. On a much lower-profile level, Vance’s office routinely outpaced its city counterparts in terms of prosecuting misdemeanors, a practice that ensnared the city’s Black and Latinx residents. During his three terms, outgoing DA Cy Vance made international headlines because of his controversial handling of cases involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump. But will Wall Street’s favorite prevail over a fractured field?įor more about each of the contenders in the Manhattan DA’s race, see our candidate bios below.Īlthough the Manhattan district attorney’s office is the second largest in the United States (after Los Angeles), it is far and away the most prominent. Three decarceral candidates are vying to replace Cy Vance.
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