Mondaire Jones is running for Congress again. Will he win his old district back?

Official Portrait of Representative Mondaire Jones, 117th U.S Congress
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Out former Congressmember Mondaire Jones (D) announced that he’s running for Congress again in New York’s 17th Congressional District, which includes areas north of New York City, including Rockland and Putnam Counties.

“I’m running for Congress because, for me, policy is still personal,” he told the HuffPost, saying that he was a “pragmatic progressive member of Congress.”

Jones was first elected to Congress in New York’s 17th Congressional District in the 2020 election. He and Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) were the two first Black, gay members of Congress, and Jones was named the Freshman Representative to House Leadership.

He stood out in his first term, calling out Republicans for their “racist trash” arguments against D.C. statehood and helping lead the charge for for then-President Donald Trump’s second impeachment.

But the district changed for the 2022 elections, and gay Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), who was the chair of the powerful Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, decided to…

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