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A good seat in Congress can be hard to find, and difficult to get up from. The average district\u2014and there are four hundred and thirty-five of them\u2014is roughly the size of Wales, or New Jersey. New York\u2019s Twelfth District, which spans the Upper East Side, the Upper West Side, midtown, and Chelsea, is one of the richest, smallest, and most solidly Democratic districts in the country. It has the most people with college degrees and is in the ninety-fifth percentile for members of the Silent Generation. After its incumbent, Jerry Nadler, who has been in Congress since 1992, announced his retirement last year, the race to fill his seat has also become one of the most contested.<\/p>\n

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The field is frighteningly full. This year\u2019s Democratic primary can feel like the Tour de France: there\u2019s no front-runner but a hustling peloton of relatively rich athletes in nice surrounds. It includes Micah Lasher, a one-term assemblyman from the West Side, who has been endorsed by Nadler; Alex Bores, a two-term assemblyman from the East Side, who has become the center of an A.I. proxy war; George Conway, a former Republican turned Trump critic; and Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of President John F. Kennedy, who is best known as a social-media jokester. (Four other candidates are also running as Democrats.)<\/p>\n

Primaries are notoriously hard to poll, but the Twelfth District is especially scatterbrained. Polls have, variously, shown Schlossberg leading at twenty-two per cent, then trailing at eleven per cent; Lasher at twenty-two and at fourteen. It can feel like a sudoku where the numbers keep changing. The race is at once glitzy, cautious, confusing, spiky, and uninspiring. It is awash with money but a little short on belief.<\/p>\n

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I recently went to a dive bar on the Upper West Side to attend a happy-hour event with Conway, the former Republican. Staffers handed out bright-blue drink tickets as the candidate, wearing a blue business shirt tucked into jeans, walked in with his dog, a corgi named Clyde. Conway is sixty-two and has brought a kind of sniper\u2019s focus to the race: he has vowed to serve only one term, impeach Trump, and then retire. Many attendees shared his focus, and the President\u2019s name floated over the gathering like an intrusive thought. Conway listed some of his legislative concerns\u2014abortion, housing\u2014but added, \u201cWe can\u2019t fix all of that until he\u2019s gone.\u201d When asked about the most important issue facing New York City today, he said, \u201cAffordability,\u201d yet this, too, was connected to Trump. \u201cHow do you spend a billion dollars on a ballroom?\u201d Conway asked. \u201cIt\u2019s insane. We spent all this money to refurbish this 747 he got from Qatar.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI like his fight,\u201d Millie Cassese, a seventysomething former court reporter, told me. \u201cMicah Lasher knows the area, but, in the current moment, we need a fighter.\u201d A young supporter named Danny loved the fact that Conway is a lawyer: \u201cWe have so many legislators. We don\u2019t have enough prosecutors.\u201d Danny, who lives in Brooklyn, was supporting Conway in between volunteering for his local congressman, Dan Goldman, who served as the lead counsel during the first impeachment of Trump. \u201cThe way he makes Republican witnesses shit their pants when they sit down in hearings, that\u2019s the kind of people we need in Congress,\u201d he told me, of Goldman. \u201cWe don\u2019t have enough fucking psychopaths is basically what I mean.\u201d<\/p>\n

These days, Conway is best known for his work with the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump PAC<\/em> that appeals to moderate Republicans to come to their senses. But he was once a prominent conservative figure\u2014he was offered a Justice Department post during Trump\u2019s first term\u2014and, until 2023, he was married to Kellyanne Conway, who served as Trump\u2019s campaign manager and then as a senior White House counsellor. One might assume that, in a deep-blue district, his Republican past could hinder him, but the happy-hour attendees didn\u2019t seem to mind. \u201cHe was the guy who set in motion Bill Clinton\u2019s impeachment,\u201d Lynn told me, positively. \u201cThat\u2019s a big freaking deal!\u201d A few supporters spoke as if Conway had a calling to defeat Trump. \u201cI think he\u2019s sort of like Biden,\u201d Larry Kelly, a Conway supporter who described himself as a classic Upper West Side liberal, told me. I pointed out that Biden\u2019s efforts to stop Trump hadn\u2019t been entirely successful. \u201cHe got old,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cBut he did win. He was there for a reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

It can feel a little odd that the major candidates in the race to replace Nadler, a thirty-four-year incumbent, are two people with relatively limited political experience, Micah Lasher and Alex Bores, and two people with no real political experience at all, Conway and Jack Schlossberg. (\u201c\u00a0\u2018Experience\u2019 is just a code word,\u201d Schlossberg told me, suggesting that it\u2019s used against candidates who \u201cdidn\u2019t come up through the institution.\u201d)<\/p>\n

A few days after the happy hour with Conway, I met with Lasher, at Utopia Diner, on the Upper West Side. If there\u2019s an establishment candidate in the race, it\u2019s him: at forty-four years old, he is somehow the elder statesman of the pack. Lasher had just come from his children\u2019s piano recital, where his son had played a Chopin solo; Lasher\u2019s list of endorsements is more like a symphony. He has worked as an aide to Nadler, as the head of state legislative affairs for former mayor Michael Bloomberg, and as a policy director to the governor, Kathy Hochul, all of whom have backed him. \u201cMicah has worked for everyone,\u201d Jasmine Gripper, the state director of the Working Families Party, told me. \u201cBloomberg, I would have assumed, would have been for Alex Bores,\u201d she added, because they were both from the East Side, \u201cbut Micah worked in the Bloomberg administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At the start of May, Lasher\u2019s campaign launched something they called \u201cMicah Mayhem.\u201d \u201cMayhem\u201d was a metaphor. Lasher\u2019s argument for himself is fairly nerdy. When I asked him what set him apart from the jostling field, he said, \u201cI have figured out a way to stymie Trump legislatively.\u201d Lasher seems to be betting on a combination of projected competence and overwhelming, overlapping endorsement. (The filmmaker Benny Safdie and his wife, Ava, an education advocate, are voting for Lasher, partly because he has been endorsed by their local councilwoman, Gale Brewer.) \u201cIt\u2019s a very informed, educated electorate,\u201d Lasher told me.<\/p>\n

But, at times, Lasher is more taciturn than some of the politicians who have endorsed him. Nadler, for example, has been much more outspoken on Israel\u2019s war in Gaza. Lasher declined to engage when I asked if he wanted to respond to the Conway supporters who said that he wasn\u2019t a fighter. Later, when I asked Lasher if there was an ideological difference between him and his fellow-assemblyman, Bores, he didn\u2019t point out any. (The Working Families Party, a progressive party that has long supported Nadler, considered whether to endorse a candidate, but couldn\u2019t decide and endorsed no one.)<\/p>\n

On Israel, a lot of candidates have clammed up. Schlossberg is the only candidate of the four to say that he would vote against providing Israel with offensive weapons. (Schlossberg still supports providing defensive weapons to Israel\u2014funding the Iron Dome.) Lasher, Bores, and Conway have said that they will not block sending Israel offensive or defensive weapons. (When I mentioned to Schlossberg that it can be difficult to tell the candidates apart ideologically, he covered his face with both hands and groaned. \u201cWe could not be more different,\u201d he said, when it comes to Israel.)<\/p>\n

One weekend, I met up with Brian Mangan, a former delegate candidate for Bernie Sanders and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, who lives in the Twelfth District. (I\u2019d first encountered Mangan on X, where he posted under the display name Millennial Dads for Alex Bores, with a profile photo of Danny DeVito from \u201cIt\u2019s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.\u201d) Bores\u2014a thirty-five-year-old who worked as a data scientist before he was elected to public office\u2014is best known for being an A.I. regulator. Last year, he introduced the RAISE<\/em> Act in the State Legislature, which established safety plans for frontier A.I. models. But Mangan made the case that Bores was not only the most legislatively experienced leading candidate but also the most progressive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t Alex\u2019s intention to run on this,\u201d Mangan said, of A.I. (Bores told me, \u201cMy plan was to talk about A.I. like five to ten per cent of the time.\u201d) Mangan said that Bores can geek out about other issues, and wished that happened more: \u201cHe will actually talk to people about how the tax code is full of loopholes.\u201d Lorelei Crean, a trans-youth activist, told me that he started campaigning for Bores because he had consistently shown up to trans-rights rallies, even before launching his congressional campaign. \u201cThere are so many pictures in my camera roll that Apple has identified of us together,\u201d he told me. At one rally, Crean said, Bores \u201cwas probably the only straight and cis guy there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bores has been endorsed by the majority of labor unions, and also the Bernie Sanders-affiliated group Our Revolution\u2014but he then specifically distanced himself from the group\u2019s position on Palestine, which was to block sending bombs to Israel. Crean, the activist, told me, of Bores\u2019s stance on Israel, \u201cThis is a district where it is political suicide to say anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read more Happy-Go-Lucky<\/a><\/p>\n

A super PAC partly funded by investors in OpenAI has spent more than seven million dollars on attack ads against Bores. Somewhat confusingly, Bores has also received millions from other<\/em> A.I. companies that are pro-regulation, which has turned a corner of the primary into an A.I. \u201cproxy battle,\u201d as my colleague Gideon Lewis-Kraus recently put it. Untangling the conflict can require an up-to-date internecine map of various Silicon Valley factions. Bores used to work for Palantir, the surveillance company that used A.I. to assist ICE<\/em> with deportations and provided support to Israel\u2019s air strikes in Gaza. Recently, I asked Bores about his work at Palantir, outside a campaign event at a gastropub on the Upper East Side. He told me, \u201cYou have to place yourself in 2014. This was the Obama Administration.\u201d At the time, the C.E.O. of Palantir, Alex Karp, was a Democrat, and Bores worked on projects aimed at improving the Department of Veterans Affairs and the C.D.C. \u201cThe pitch was that we were coming to make government effective,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I asked whether this was a little disingenuous. In \u201cThe Lord of the Rings,\u201d the palant\u00edr is a sinister orb controlled by the forces of evil. Had Bores known what the name meant when he started working there? \u201cYes\u2014the seeing stones,\u201d he said. I pointed out that the palant\u00edr was created by Sauron, the books\u2019 central antagonist. \u201cWell, it falls into the hands<\/em> of Sauron,\u201d he corrected me. \u201cThat\u2019s not how it was originally, so maybe it was foretold in that sense.\u201d (The palant\u00edr was indeed initially created by the Elves of Valinor.)<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, Bores\u2019s past at Palantir has been as persistent as the Nazg\u00fbl. At a meet and greet for Bores in Lenox Hill, a woman named Laura Hepler approached him and said that her nineteen-year-old daughter supported his A.I.-regulation stance, but had a few doubts, because, as she put it, \u201cFour years is a long time to work for a company I hate.\u201d Bores told Hepler that he quit Palantir for moral reasons and that the C.E.O. and other tech giants were now campaigning against him. The answer was mildly convincing. \u201cI\u2019m guessing that the gray area was a longer period of time than he talked about,\u201d Hepler told me, later. But it was convincing enough. Her daughter, she said, had been texting with her best friend about the primary, and agonizing over whom to vote for. Her daughter\u2019s friend had texted her recently, \u201cI\u2019m going to throw up in my mouth and vote for Alex Bores.\u201d<\/p>\n

As I traipsed along the campaign trail, with its strange, attention-sapping swirl of candidates, I found myself thinking often of a typical Schlossberg campaign ad, posted on Instagram, that was just a photo of him surfing topless, through a cresting wave. On X, the journalist Jon Levine had posted it with the caption \u201cThe people running to replace Rep. Jerry Nadler have spent YEARS of their lives in community board meetings and this guy is going to just run them all over.\u201d (When I met with Lasher, I showed him the tweet and asked if it was something he related to. He told me, \u201cI\u2019ll leave you to figure that out.\u201d)<\/p>\n

Schlossberg was the hardest candidate to get a hold of. Perhaps in a nod to the demographics of the district, the candidate, who is thirty-three, has said that he has \u201cthe soul of an eighty-five-year-old man, who loves to read and listen to music and hang out with his parents.\u201d In a speech at an assisted-living facility in March, Schlossberg summed up his campaign as being about \u201cpast, present, and future.\u201d In the past, he said, people \u201cbelieved in the federal government, and Congress was competent.\u201d He was the future.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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His main strength, Schlossberg argues, is not his family but his wit. Before launching his bid for Congress, he made popular social-media videos that were edgy, attention-grabbing, and deeply ironic, with a somewhat himbo persona. (On the way to one campaign event, I looked at my phone to see that Schlossberg had tweeted, with no apparent context, \u201cMen are becoming less physically attractive according to recent studies . . . Do you agree ?\u201d) He has framed this as a form of pro-Democratic political communication, seizing the airwaves from Republicans and Trump. Sara Nelson, the head of the flight attendants\u2019 union, which has endorsed Schlossberg, told me that he had the rare ability to cut through and \u201cconnect with people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Late in the campaign, I spoke with Schlossberg for a few minutes before he kicked off a rally at Terminal 5, a cavernous venue in Hell\u2019s Kitchen. He told me that he was perhaps unique in the ability to distill information with humor. \u201cIn a way,\u201d he said, \u201cother people can\u2019t do both of those things.\u201d I asked him, did he mean the other people in the primary? He told me, \u201cIn the whole world.\u201d (He later clarified that he was only being \u201chalf serious.\u201d)<\/p>\n

A common criticism of Schlossberg is that he wouldn\u2019t have had a sniff in the race if he weren\u2019t a Kennedy. When I asked Nelson whether she was endorsing Schlossberg because of his family connections, she said, \u201cNot directly, but indirectly. Teddy Kennedy was our union\u2019s biggest champion when he was in the Senate. There\u2019s some consideration there.\u201d (The union was also impressed by Schlossberg\u2019s commitment to accept no money from super PACS<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

\u201cWe simply know Jack on a deeper level than we might know any other candidate,\u201d Nelson continued. \u201cMaybe that isn\u2019t really fair to the other candidates, but it\u2019s just the reality. We have a longer record to look at.\u201d I pointed out that the \u201clonger record\u201d was not actually his but his uncle\u2019s. \u201cCorrect,\u201d Nelson said. Jayson Thompson, a Schlossberg staffer, told me, \u201cIn olden times, if I came from a family of metalworkers and I became a metalworker, would we call that nepotism? It\u2019s something he was potentially born to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

When I asked Schlossberg if he was a nepo baby, he told me, \u201cLike everybody else, I only know the life that I was born into. I figured out a way to use my voice and platform to contribute to the Party.\u201d He also said that it was an advantage. \u201cI show up on Day One being able to deliver for New York 12 in a way that the others can\u2019t: I stick out everywhere I go. I elevate the profile of this district.\u201d In the age of Trump, he said, Democrats are getting drowned out. The other candidates \u201cget completely lost in the shuffle.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few weeks before Election Day, I was invited by the Schlossberg team to join him as he campaigned at a local park on Roosevelt Island, the easternmost point of the district. It was Roosevelt Island Day\u2014an annual celebration of the island\u2014and around me children screamed and jumped in a bounce house shaped like the Roosevelt Island tram. To my surprise, Conway showed up, walking Clyde; Bores strolled past me in a dark suit. I spoke to Thompson, the Schlossberg staffer, who was wearing a shirt emblazoned with Schlossberg\u2019s campaign slogan, \u201cBelieve in Something Again.\u201d (The slogan, Schlossberg has said, is \u201cas dumb as it is true.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It was blisteringly hot, loud, and, fittingly, carnivalesque. \u201cIt\u2019s a primary,\u201d Thompson told me. \u201cThere aren\u2019t going to be vast differences in policy; it\u2019s more vibes- and energy-based.\u201d Each candidate seemed to be hitting his relative mark. Lasher was there but I didn\u2019t see him; Schlossberg, a campaign staffer told me eventually, had been held up and wasn\u2019t going to make it. One stall at the festival, run by a local Democratic club, featured an \u201cImpeach-O-Wheel\u201d\u2014a gag pinwheel with the faces of Trump officials who should be impeached. A volunteer at the stall told me that Conway had stood at the table and spun it \u201ctwenty to thirty times.\u201d (Bores had spun it once.) Schlossberg told me later, \u201cThis race is a microcosm of everything that\u2019s going on in America and around the world in politics.\u201d Approval ratings for the Democratic Party, Thompson told me, are at an all-time low, and at least Schlossberg was shaking it up. \u201cPeople might call it unserious content,\u201d he said of Schlossberg\u2019s posts. (One day earlier, Schlossberg had tweeted, \u201cAs the clear winner of last night\u2019s debate I say this\u2014Congratulations to Dua Lipa and Callum Turner. They seem genuinely in love.\u201d) \u201cYou know that\u2019s not focus-grouped,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cYou want to take down that wall.\u201d\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

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