Dem Lawyer In Trump Impeachment To Run For House

The New York Daily News reports:

Daniel Goldman, the lead counsel in former President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial, plans to announce Tuesday he’s running for the open congressional seat that former Mayor Bill de Blasio, Rep. Mondaire Jones, Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou and former Rep. Liz Holtzman are all vying to win.

Goldman, 46, who’s lived within the recently redrawn 10th congressional district for 15 years, told the Daily News Monday that if he’s elected, he plans to focus much of his attention on voting rights, counteracting Republican’s efforts to erode those rights, gun control and abortion.

Goldman described the current situation as a “five-alarm fire, where our democracy is truly at stake.”

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