The crowd at 99 Scott Studio in East Williamsburg did not cheer the candidate's name when the race was called Tuesday night. They chanted something else entirely. "Free Palestine. Free Palestine." Over and over, filling a cavernous Brooklyn venue as Claire Valdez, the newly nominated Democratic candidate for New York's 7th Congressional District, took the stage to declare that her movement was "durable" and "growing" and would not stop "until working people run the table. . .
