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Meet the Candidates: NY District 13
Representative Charlie Rangel, who has served in the House continuously since 1971, is retiring. Which means there's an open seat in District 13.
Hear from eight of the nine candidates running for Rangel's seat:
- New York State Senator Adriano Espaillat (D-31) (website)
- New York State Assembly Member Keith L.T. Wright (D-70) (website)
- Assembly Member Adam Clayton Powell IV (D-68) (website)
- Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook, a minister and former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom (website)
- Clyde Edward Williams, Jr., who worked in the Clinton and Obama administrations (website)
- New York State Assembly Member Guillermo Linares (D-72) (website)
- Mike Gallagher, systems manager (website)
- Sam Sloan, chess master, publisher, and candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination in the 2010 and 2012 and the Mayor of New York City in 2013 (website)