Endorsements for the three Democratic candidates seeking to succeed Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York's 12th Congressional District: Micah Lasher, Alex Bores, and Jack Schlossberg. Primary: June 23, 2026. Compiled 2026-05-11.
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All endorsements (chronological)
| Date | Candidate | Endorser | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-22 | Lasher | Linda B. Rosenthal (Assemblymember) | City & State NY |
| 2025-09-22 | Lasher | Gale Brewer (NYC Councilmember) | City & State NY |
| 2025-09-22 | Lasher | Shaun Abreu (NYC Council Majority Leader) | City & State NY |
| 2025-09-22 | Lasher | Scott Stringer (former NYC Comptroller / BP) | City & State NY |
| 2025-09-22 | Lasher | Ruth Messinger (former Manhattan BP) | City & State NY |
| 2025-10-09 | Lasher | Brad Hoylman-Sigal (Manhattan BP) | @MicahLasher |
| 2025-11-10 | Bores | First-round rollout — image lists: Rep. Steve Israel (former), Assemblymembers Noah Burroughs, Brian Cunningham, Landon Dais, Maritza Davila, Harry Bronson, Eddie Gibbs, Chantel Jackson, Steve Stern, Latrice Walker; NYC Council Member-elect Justin Sanchez; community leaders Vanessa Aronson & Faith Bondy; NABET-CWA Local 16; 3.14 Action | @AlexBores |
| 2025-11-13 | Lasher | Mark Levine (NYC Comptroller-elect) | City & State NY, @MicahLasher |
| 2025-11-17 | Bores | District-leaders / community batch — image lists: Four Freedoms DLs Ben Akselrod, Kim Moscaritolo, Gabriel Panek, Rebecca Weintraub; Lexington DLs Peter Borock, Meryl Brodsky, Noreen McManus, Sue Moss, Russell Squire; Jim Owles DL Arthur Schwartz; ERID DLs Michael Corbett, Reshma Patel | @AlexBores |
| 2025-12-08 | Lasher | Liam Elkind (former CD-12 candidate) | @MicahLasher |
| 2025-12-15 | Lasher | Deborah Glick (Assemblymember) | City & State NY |
| 2026-01-16 | Bores | "13 new endorsements" batch — image lists: Assemblymembers Larinda Hooks, Monique Chandler-Waterman, Nikki Lucas; Councilmembers Julie Won, Kevin Riley; Albany Mayor Dorcey Applyrs; former Councilmember Ben Kallos; Hell's Kitchen DL Paul Devlin; Four Freedoms members Jaime Berman & Erica Vladimer; Lexington members Conrad Foa & Heather Bain; The 504 Democratic Club | @AlexBores |
| 2026-01-20 | Lasher | Dan Garodnick (former NYC Councilmember; DCP Director) | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-01-23 | Lasher | West Side Democrats | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-01-23 | Lasher | Village Independent Democrats | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-01-30 | Lasher | Eleanor Roosevelt Independent Democrats (ERID) | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-02-02 | Bores | Lynn Schulman (NYC Councilmember) | Bores release |
| 2026-02-02 | Lasher | Brian Kavanagh (State Sen.) | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-02-05 | Lasher | Carl McCall (former State Comptroller / U.N. Ambassador) | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-02-07 | Schlossberg | Nancy Pelosi (Speaker Emerita) — reported via leak | CNN, CBS |
| 2026-02-09 | Lasher | Rep. Jerry Nadler | NBC News, @MicahLasher |
| 2026-02-10 | Bores | The Lexington Democratic Club (institutional) | @AlexBores |
| 2026-02-11 | Lasher | Samuel J. Tilden Democratic Club | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-02-11 | Bores | Carolyn Maloney (former Rep., NY-12) | City & State NY, @AlexBores |
| 2026-02-11 | Bores | New York Progressive Action Network (NYPAN) | @AlexBores |
| 2026-02-12 | Lasher | Three Parks Independent Democrats | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-02-17 | Lasher | Erik Bottcher (State Senate candidate; had dropped NY-12 bid) | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-02-17 | Bores | Four Freedoms Democratic Club | Four Freedoms NYC, @AlexBores |
| 2026-02-19 | Bores | Chelsea Reform Democratic Club (CRDC) | @AlexBores |
| 2026-02-20 | Lasher | Hell's Kitchen Democrats | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-02-23 | Lasher | Broadway Democrats | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-03-04 | Lasher | Richard Gottfried (former Assemblymember) | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-03-04 | Lasher | Columbia University Democrats | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-03-06 | Lasher | 32BJ SEIU | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-03-11 | Bores | Mathew Shurka (suspended own NY-12 bid, endorsed Bores) | JTA, @AlexBores |
| 2026-03-12 | Lasher | Michael Bloomberg (former Mayor) | amNewYork, @MicahLasher |
| 2026-03-19 | Lasher | Rep. Nydia Velázquez (NY-7) | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-03-24 | Bores | Saundrea I. Coleman (community leader) | @AlexBores |
| 2026-03-25 | Bores | DC 37 | City & State NY, Bores release, @AlexBores |
| 2026-03-31 | Bores | RWDSU | @AlexBores |
| 2026-04-07 | Bores | CWA District 1 (NY state CWA umbrella) | @AlexBores |
| 2026-04-13 | Lasher | Gov. Kathy Hochul | NY1, @MicahLasher |
| 2026-04-14 | Bores | TWU Local 100 | @AlexBores |
| 2026-04-20 | Schlossberg | Association of Flight Attendants–CWA (AFA-CWA) | @JBKSchlossberg |
| 2026-04-21 | Bores | NYSUT | NYSUT release, @AlexBores |
| 2026-04-22 | Lasher | New York League of Conservation Voters (NYLCV) | NYLCV, @MicahLasher |
| 2026-04-24 | Bores | New York State Young Democrats (NYSYD) | Upper East Site, @AlexBores |
| 2026-04-28 | Lasher | Christine Quinn (former NYC Council Speaker) | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-04-28 | Schlossberg | CWA Local 1180 (see conflict note) | @JBKSchlossberg |
| 2026-04-29 | Bores | NYC Youth 4 Trans Rights | @AlexBores |
| 2026-04-30 | Lasher | David Paterson (former Gov.) | Amsterdam News op-ed |
| 2026-04-30 | Bores | Lincoln Center Democrats | @AlexBores |
| 2026-04-30 | Bores | CWA Local 1180 (see conflict note) | @AlexBores |
| 2026-05-01 | Lasher | CWA Local 1180 (see conflict note) | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-05-01 | Bores | Equality New York | @AlexBores |
| 2026-05-01 | Bores | Stonewall Democrats of New York (SDNYC) | @AlexBores |
| 2026-05-05 | Bores | PSC-CUNY | @AlexBores |
| 2026-05-06 | Bores | Our Revolution (Bernie Sanders-affiliated) | Jewish Insider, @AlexBores |
| 2026-05-07 | Lasher | Third Act NYC | @MicahLasher |
| 2026-05-07 | Bores | DC 9 IUPAT (painters & allied trades) | @AlexBores |
| 2026-05-08 | Bores | United Federation of Teachers (UFT) | City & State NY, @AlexBores |
| 2026-05-08 | Bores | Fernando "Freddy" Ferrer (former Bronx BP) | @AlexBores |
| 2026-05-11 | Bores | Rep. Pat Ryan (NY-18) | @PatRyanUC, @AlexBores reply |
Bores: additional endorsers
The date/source of these endorsements is unknown (they appear on the candidate's website, but there is no known news article or social media post):
- Former state officials: Mark Alan Siegel (former Assemblymember), Pete Grannis (former NYSDEC Commissioner).
- District Leader: David Warren — 1 of 13 on the page; not on any batch image, no individual welcome tweet found.
- Community Leader: Francine Haselkorn — 1 of 8 on the page; not on any batch image, no individual welcome tweet found.
CWA Local 1180 endorsed all three candidates??
All three campaigns publicly claim CWA Local 1180's endorsement within four days:
- Schlossberg — 2026-04-28 (thanking Local 1180 president Gloria Middleton)
- Bores — 2026-04-30 (calling 1180 "CWA Union's first public sector local")
- Lasher — 2026-05-01 (tagging @CWA1180)
Unexplained from public sources. Possibilities: (a) Local 1180 issued a multi-candidate "approved slate," (b) one or more campaigns are mischaracterizing a screening as an endorsement, (c) the local revised its position. No CWA Local 1180 release identifying a single endorsee is locatable. Note that CWA District 1 (the NY-state umbrella) endorsed only Bores on 2026-04-07.
Notes
- Working Families Party — not endorsed in NY-12 as of 2026-05-11; per City & State, WFP was considering reopening its NY-12 endorsement process.
- Erik Bottcher dropped his own NY-12 bid around January 2026 to run for State Senate; he endorsed Lasher on 2026-02-17.
Tally
- Lasher: 32
- Bores: 65
- Schlossberg: 3