>> I'm calling, Jamaal Bowman has won.
He's got 61 to 36 lead.
He now has 10,224 votes.
Eliot Engel has 6,059, yes, there's a lot more to come.
No, it is not more than 50% reporting.
Yes, there's a mail-in ballot situation.
Yes, it's Is very different than a normal election.
But 61 to 36 is a gigantic lead, to be able to make that up is near impossible.
It's over, Jamaal Bowman winner going to Congress >> And this is a big blow.
To the Israel lobby as well.
Their best friend on the hill might have been Eliot Engel.
I think when when you look at his voting record for being opposed to the Iran nuclear deal
to favoring the Iraq War, he is somebody who you saw all of these Israeli PAC, NORPAC,
APAC.
Everybody coming out for Eliot Engel, that speaks volumes about how hawkish he was on
Israel and protecting Israel in Congress.
And that, you asked me about the effect, I know you want to know the effect about it.
Politically in terms of what it means for other challenges to other sitting members
of Congress, but it's gonna have a profound effect on foreign policy, especially as it
pertains to Israel.
I also think, his legacies, one of the things that Eliot Engel is known for was always boosting
up diversity on his committees.
And I think that speaks to why he got the CBC endorsement.
It's not even a little bit of irony that he lost to an African American.
If he was gonna lose to anyone.
I'm sure that's the kind of person he would want to lose to because he has done a lot,
so you see people on his committee from Ilhan Omar to Karen Bass to Gregory Meeks to Joaquin
Castro.
This has been a trademark or it's been very good PR by his staff, but that's always been
something he's talked about.
>> Right, so, look Eliot Engel, certainly, as the primary was approaching, and he knew
he was a real challenger, became even more progressive on domestic issues, but had been
fairly progressive throughout on domestic issues, but on foreign policy, he was a hawk
through and through, helped Republicans start wars and almost did it again.
In the case of Iran.
That is a danger we could not tolerate.
Clearly an establishment Democrat, obviously an incumbent Democrat, the sitting House Foreign
Affairs Committee chair, and Jamaal Bowman, progressive Justice Democrat, has just defeated
him.
So, let's do it, down goes Engel, down goes Engel, down goes Engel.
Look, if you told me I was gonna be saying that on a night like tonight, I would have
told you the beginning of 2020, that means we had a great 2020.
Now as it turns out, as you all know, It's been mixed.
It's been very mixed.
But a couple of months ago, everybody had left us for dead.
Bernie Sanders had lost.
For whatever little it's worth, I had lost.
And super Tuesday had gone badly for us.
And it looked like that was the end of the battle.
But guess what?
A lot of you didn't stop fighting, and you didn't stop believing.
And Jamaal Bowman got a lot of help from a lot of young Turks fans as Ryan Grim explained
in his book, We've Got People.
Young Turks viewers put two and a half million dollars into Just Democrats in 2018.
In this time around, we were the first that Jamaal Bowman had and you guys were always
there.
I remember I did a rally with Jamaal in New York, god, forever ago.
It's been so long, was a year ago.
But so many of you showed up, what an incredible diverse, wonderful crowd that it was.
And a lot of you signed up to become volunteers for Jamaal and gave whatever little money
that we all had to Jamaal.
It doesn't take corporate PAC money, and guess what?
You made the difference.
All of you, and it doesn't matter if you're young Turks viewer or not.
If you volunteered or donated to Jamaal, you made a difference, you made a difference.
You were the giant killer.
You were David tonight.
And this time, I get to say you did it again.
So last time around, it was AOC and Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and Ayana Pressley, and
we got incumbents, Ro Khanna, Pramila Jayapal.
Then this time around, all of a sudden, Murray Newman won, we got eight that's coming in.
She beat Dan Lipinski, one of the two most conservative Democrats in the house.
And now, Jamaal Bowman with another shocker, another earthquake.
So down goes Engel, and now Jamaal Bowman's coming to town.
That is the second wave of Just Democrats, that is exactly what we were looking for.
But I think more importantly, that means there's a third wave and a fourth wave.
And now we're on the board, and we got him on the ropes.
And I remember when I was running, we would talk about a dream, we whispered of a dream.
On the night of 2016 when Donald Trump won, I gave an analogy about how Progressives could
board the Democratic Party ship and take it over that.
They were so incompetent they lost to Donald Trump.
So they've got a giant aircraft carrier.
And our idea was pull up our pirate ship next to it, board the ship.
And take it.
Guess what just happened?
On board that aircraft carrier, a message just went out.
Bowman has boarded the ship.
Bowman is on board.
So a little bit of a tremor to the Democratic establishment tonight.
>> And yeah, now we got AOC, now we got Jamaal, now we got all those guys, they're all on
the ship and more are coming, John.
>> I gotta ask you a question, it's sort of a prediction, you guys know the New York Area,
I grew up in Connecticut too, so I'm curious if you think the pattern is 2018 Crowley,
2020 Engel, 2022 Schumer?
>> Did I hear someone say Kyle Driver.
>> I was thinking of AOC, but I get what you're saying.
>> So I'm kidding around Conklins.
He's one of the co-founders of Just Democrats, and he does happen to live in New York.
So if you're in his district, that would be interesting.
Anyway but in all seriousness, look to me AOC winning a senate seat is not as important
as her winning that original house, not anywhere near as important and not anywhere near as
important as the next Just Democrat winning a House seat or a Senate seat.
Because she's already on the ship.
We just need more people on the ship.
And we need enough people on the ship that the establishment Democrats go, okay, okay!
Medicare for all, you got it, you got it, just don't primary.
And I'm brazen about that.
I'm very straightforward.
That was the plan from day one.
That's the plan going forward, and yes, I will if I can.
And if I'm part of that process, I'd be thrilled to do it.
Yeah, I'd love to make a list and check it twice and find out who's been naughty and
nice.
And if you make it onto a Justice Democrats list, you better watch out, it doesn't mean
that you're definitely gonna lose.
But it does mean Santa Claus is coming to town.
And when he does, if you've been naughty, 62 to 35, just ask Engel, just as Crowley,
well, Crowley would have to go on K Street because he's a lobbyist now, but you know
what Justice Democrats making lobbyists since 2018.
So we'll turn incumbents into lobbyists so quick.
So look now what's next?
What's next?
I'm not talking about 2022.
And put the fun aside.
There's other candidates right now that could make a giant difference.
So let me tell you about Alex Morris.
Alex Morris against another chair, the head of the House Ways and Means Committee.
Richard Neal in Massachusetts, Alex Morris also a Just Democrat, if Alex beats Richard
Neal, goodnight Irene, every single incumbent in the house is going to be 1000 times more
careful when they vote against progressive issues.
And on the Senate side, he's not a Just Democrat, but he's a wonderful Progressive, and he's
already closed 40 points against Hickenlooper.
Here comes Romanoff, and if Andrew Romanoff beats Hickenlooper.
In a race that was considered impossible a couple of months ago, my god, then both in
the House and the Senate, Progressives will be ascending.
You don't have to win all the seats.
You just have to win enough seats to have a credible threat.
And When I say that I don't mean it in like a theoretical way, and I don't mean it in
a way that, hey, it's credible but not real.
No, no, no, credible as in real, real, that if Progressives come to primary you, then
you have a significant percentage chance of losing.
Doesn't mean it's a guarantee, but do you really wanna take that chance?
And we're gonna find out when they vote Medicare For All and Green New Deal and other Progressive
priorities, and my guess knowing politicians and how much they'd like to hang onto power,
they're not gonna wanna take that chance.
Give me one more win.
Give us one more win.
And I think then at that point we'll have accrued excellent power, and I hope that we
find a leader in Congress that does not mind using it.