Army Veteran Hopes To Turn New York’s Only Trump-Friendly Borough Blue

Rose also targets what he and many political observers see as incumbent Dan Donovan’s politically expedient bow to Trump earlier this year simply to get Trump’s endorsement over Donovan’s more Trumpian GOP primary challenger, Michael Grimm, who’d previously served as the district’s representative in Congress from 2011 to 2015. Grimm, who became infamous for threatening to throw a reporter off a balcony, was convicted of felony tax fraud in 2014, but was nonetheless re-elected that year. Under pressure, he resigned at the start of 2015, and then served a several-month prison sentence.

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