Political observers had speculated at the beginning of the race that Goldman’s high-profile role as a Trump prosecutor - coupled with his gig as a legal commentator for MSNBC - might be a liability in Borough Park rather than a selling point. Still, the qualities that appealed to the Times - which praised Goldman’s “uncommon experience” while citing his “knowledge of congressional oversight and the rule of law” - had also been expected to weaken his standing in deep-red Borough Park, an Orthodox Jewish enclave in Brooklyn where Trump pulled in more than 80% of the vote in the 2020 election.

The newspaper’s imprimatur may resonate with conventionally liberal Times readers in Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights and Cobble Hill, among other neighborhoods in the district. On Saturday, he snagged a coveted endorsement from The New York Times - a major coup for the neophyte candidate, who had been polling neck-and-neck with two local elected officials running to his left. With less than a week remaining until next Tuesday’s primary, Goldman has recently emerged as the frontrunner in the race, where he is among a dozen Democrats jockeying to represent the newly drawn 10th Congressional District. Those concerns, among others, have fueled Goldman’s first campaign for federal office, which he announced in June following the delayed finalization of New York’s reconfigured congressional map. “Where we are today is far worse than where we were two years ago, and that genuinely scares me for our country and for our democratic institutions and the rule of law.” “Republicans are descending into an unforeseen and unpredicted place of complete anti-democratic demagoguery,” Goldman said in an interview with Jewish Insider at an outdoor café in Tribeca, the Manhattan neighborhood where he lives with his wife and five children. Meanwhile, his bête noire, former President Donald Trump - who, despite Goldman’s best efforts, was ultimately acquitted of two impeachment charges in February 2020 - is facing a mounting list of criminal inquiries, culminating last week in a high-profile FBI raid at his Palm Beach residence.īut even as Trump’s legal and political future remains in question, Goldman, 46, suggested that the former president, who continues to stoke false allegations of election fraud as he weighs a possible comeback campaign, is merely the symptom of a growing extremism that Goldman hopes to counter if he makes it to Congress. In what might be described as a delayed reversal of fortune, Dan Goldman, a former federal prosecutor who served as the Democrats’ lead counsel in the first Trump impeachment trial, is now riding a wave of momentum as a frontrunner in the highly competitive race for an open House seat in Lower Manhattan and northwest Brooklyn.

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