The group is backing Maloney’s 27-year-old primary challenger, Rana Abdelhamid, who heads a nonprofit designed to empower minority women, in a race that’s revived the prickly debate over the value of congressional experience; what it means to be a modern-day progressive; and whether the party’s campaign arm should provide blanket protection to incumbents.
Maloney, a 28-year veteran of Capitol Hill who now chairs the powerful Oversight and Reform Committee, is a liberal lawmaker representing a liberal district, leading her allies to question why the Justice Democrats are coming after her.
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Some characterized the group’s endorsement of Abdelhamid as a simple power grab.
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