Outgoing Congressman Max Rose leaves the NYC mayoral race – Telemundo New York (47)

NEW YORK – Former United States Representative Max Rose, a Democrat who represented one of the few conservative places in New York City, left the hotly contested mayoral race after filing campaign papers in early December.

Rose, 34, presented documentation to the city’s Campaign Finance Board that allowed her to begin raising funds for the campaign despite insisting to our sister network News 4, just a few months ago, that it would never happen. Before the November election, the Staten Island congressman denied rumors that he would run for mayor.

“Do you think a short, bald Jew from Brooklyn will be elected mayor? I’m running for re-election and that’s the job I want,” Rose told NBC New York in September. Even if he lost his seat, Rose said, he was not going to run for mayor.

Almost three weeks later, Rose took to Twitter to reverse course once again, saying she would not campaign for the position next year.

“Representing the 11th Congressional District of New York has been an incredible honor and privilege. While I will not be running for mayor this cycle, I am going nowhere in the fight to make our city and our country deliver on their promise. “he said in a statement read.

The former congressman’s announcement comes on the same day that Congress met for the start of a new session, swearing in the new class of legislators.

Rose lost her seat to Republican Nicole Malliotakis, 40, a member of the State Assembly (who lost a mayoral bid in 2017).

The district is much more Republican than the rest of New York City and is known to be home to a large number of current and retired police officers, a factor that may have played a role in the contest.

During his 2020 campaign, Rose, an Army combat veteran, distanced himself from Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio, creating an ad calling de Blasio the “worst mayor ever.”

The New York City Primary Election will be on June 22 of this year. By the end of 2020, nearly three dozen people had submitted documents to the finance board to run for mayor.

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