Yang close to winning support of New York’s powerful Orthodox leaders

May 11 2021 by POLITICO - TOP Stories

 

NEW YORK — Andrew Yang is close to locking down almost universal support among leaders of New York City’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community — a loyal bloc of voters that can make or break a campaign.

Within the next week or so, New York’s leading mayoral candidate — who has already won the support of Orthodox political and religious leaders in Brooklyn’s Borough Park and Midwood sections — is expected to get the biggest prize of all: an endorsement from the Satmar rabbis in...

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