Longtime Democratic Rep. Eliot Engel is just days away from a competitive June 23 primary against progressive-backed challenger Jamaal Bowman. Who is Jamaal Bowman, the progressive newcomer causing the powerful Democrat to sweat the race for New York’s 16th district, encompassing Westchester and the Bronx? "Before I started the public school, I was the dean of students for the High School of Arts and Technology. And my job was to monitor metal detectors as black and Latino kids came into the school," Bowman recalled to WICZ. DEM REP. ENGEL LANDS BIG ENDORSEMENTS AS HE BATTLES TO KEEP HIS CONGRESSIONAL SEAT"I've literally had the s--- kicked out of me by cops," Bowman told CNN last week.

Source: Fox News June 19, 2020 20:37 UTC