John Avlon, journalist, political commentator, and author, speaks on stage as The Bob Woodruff Foundation hosts The Got Your 6 Summit at Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City on June 15, 2022. Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images for The Bob Woodruff Foundation
Former CNN commentator John Avlon announced on Feb. 21 that he is running for Congress as a Democrat in New York’s First Congressional District, a swing district on Long Island.
“The United States is the greatest democracy the world has ever known,” Mr. Avlon said in a video posted on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter. “But right now, our democracy is in danger.”
Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
