Bowman Declares Victory Over Rep. Eliot Engel in Democratic Primary

Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) votes at a school near his home in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx borough of New York City on June 23, 2020. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Educator Jamaal Bowman declared victory on Wednesday over Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), an apparent upset that left political observers shocked and drew parallels to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a bartender, emerging to win a House seat in 2018.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Bowman had 61.8 percent of the vote to Engel’s 34.9 percent.