Adriano Espaillat | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2020 | |
| Chair of theCongressional Hispanic Caucus | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Nanette Barragán |
| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew York's13th district | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2017 | |
| Preceded by | Charles Rangel |
| Member of theNew York State Senate from the31st district | |
| In office January 1, 2011 – December 31, 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Eric Schneiderman |
| Succeeded by | Marisol Alcantara |
| Member of theNew York State Assembly from the72nd district | |
| In office January 1, 1997 – December 31, 2010 | |
| Preceded by | John Brian Murtaugh |
| Succeeded by | Guillermo Linares |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Adriano de Jesús Espaillat Rodríguez (1954-09-27)September 27, 1954 (age 71) |
| Party | Democratic |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives | Buenaventura Báez (third-great-grandfather) Marcos Antonio Cabral (second-great-grandfather) Mario Fermín Cabral y Báez (great-grandfather) Manuel del Cabral (half cousin) Peggy Cabral (half first cousin-once removed) Gianni Vicini (half second cousin-once removed) |
| Education | Queens College (BS) |
| Website | House website Campaign website |
Adriano de Jesús Espaillat Rodríguez (/ˌɑːdriˈɑːnoʊˌɛspaɪˈjɑːt/AH-dree-AH-nohESS-py-YAHT; born September 27, 1954) is aDominican-American politician who has served as theU.S. representative forNew York's 13th congressional district since 2017. He is thefirst Dominican American and first formerlyundocumented immigrant to serve in Congress.[1] He previously served in theNew York State Senate and theNew York State Assembly.[2]
Espaillat was a ranking member of the New York Senate Housing, Construction and Community Development Committee and chaired the Senate Latino Caucus. He represented the neighborhoods ofMarble Hill,Inwood,Washington Heights,Hamilton Heights,Manhattanville,Morningside Heights,East Harlem and theUpper West Side in Manhattan.
Espaillat is aDemocrat. He challenged then-RepresentativeCharles Rangel in the Democratic primaries in 2012 and 2014, eventually winning the Democratic nomination in 2016 after Rangel announced his retirement. Espaillat represents one of the most Democratic districts in the country, with aCook Partisan Voting Index of D+32.[3]
Espaillat was born on September 27, 1954, inSantiago,Dominican Republic,[4][5] to Melba (née Rodríguez) and Ulises Espaillat. His father was named after 19th-century liberal Dominican presidentUlises Espaillat.
Espaillat has claimed that Dominican president Ulises Espaillat was his great-grandfather;[6][7] however, according to Dominican genealogist Edwin Espinal Hernández, a fellow of the Dominican Institute of Genealogy, Espaillat is neither a descendant of former President Ulises Espaillat nor related by him by blood.
Adriano Espaillat is second-great-grandson of the military hero Pedro Ignacio Espaillat, who is descended from black African former slaves ofFrancisco Espaillat, an 18th-century French slaveholder and governor of the Dominican province of Cibao during the Spanish colony.[8] However, Espaillat is —via his mother— the great-grandson of former Dominican Senate PresidentMario Fermín Cabral y Báez through an illegitimate daughter, which makes him a descendant of 19th-century Dominican PresidentBuenaventura Báez.[8] He is related via his father to several historical Dominican figures, including senators, congressmen, presidents (such asAntonio Guzmán andDanilo Medina) and military officers of the Dominican Republic.[8]
He and his family moved to the United States in 1964. After overstaying a tourist visa, the Espaillats becamelawful permanent residents (Green Card holders) in 1965.[9]
Espaillat grew up inWashington Heights. He graduated fromBishop Dubois High School in 1974 and earned hisB.S. degree in political science atQueens College, City University of New York in 1978.[4]
Espaillat lives inInwood, Manhattan. He is a member ofPhi Beta Sigma fraternity.[9]
Espaillat married Martha Madera in 1979.[10] He has two children and is a grandfather.[11] He is aYankees fan.[12]
Espaillat is aCatholic, but disagrees with the Church on certain issues.[13]
Espaillat served as the Manhattan Court Services Coordinator for the New York City Criminal Justice Agency, a nonprofit organization that provides indigent legal services and works to reduce unnecessary pretrial detention and post-sentence incarceration costs. As a state-certified conflict resolution mediator and volunteer with the Washington Heights Inwood Conflict Resolutions and Mediation Center, Espaillat helped resolve hundreds of conflicts.[14]
He later worked as director of the Washington Heights Victims Services Community Office, an organization offering counseling and other services to families of victims of homicides and other crimes. From 1994 to 1996, Espaillat served as the director of Project Right Start, a national initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to combat substance abuse by educating the parents of preschool children.[14]
Before his election to the New York State Assembly, Espaillat was an active voice onManhattan Community Board 12, and president of the 34th Precinct Community Council. Espaillat also served on GovernorMario Cuomo's Dominican-American Advisory Board from 1991 to 1993.[14]
Espaillat served in theNew York State Assembly from 1997 to 2010. He was elected in 1996, defeating 16-year incumbentJohn Brian Murtaugh in the Democratic primary. Espaillat chaired the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus, and committees on small business and children & families.
In the Assembly, Espaillat was a vocal advocate for tenants, consumers, veterans, immigrants and local businesses. He passed laws encouraging the construction and preservation of affordable housing, giving low-income day care workers the right to organize and obtain health care, and sponsored measures to improve hospital translation services. He also established a higher education scholarship fund for relatives of the victims of American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed on November 12, 2001.[15] Despite national Republican and conservative criticism, Espaillat strongly supported efforts in 2007 to allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driver's licenses.[16]
After a wave of assaults and murders against livery cab drivers in 2000 that left over 10 dead, Espaillat passed legislation strengthening penalties for violent crimes against livery drivers and enabled their families to receive New York State Crime Victims Board funding. Livery cabs work in less affluent neighborhoods of New York that typically lack access to yellow cabs.[17]
Espaillat took legal action against power utilityCon Edison after equipment failures led to a two-day blackout in Upper Manhattan in July 1999 that caused financial damage to restaurants, bodegas and other small businesses.[18] Con Edison subsequently agreed to invest an additional $100 million in Upper Manhattan electrical infrastructure at no cost to ratepayers and was required to refund customers billed for expenses related to the blackout.[19]
Espaillat ran for state senate in 2010 after incumbentEric Schneiderman announced his campaign forNew York attorney general. Espaillat received more than 50% of the vote in a four-way Democratic party. In 2012, Espaillat defeated then-AssemblymanGuillermo Linares 62% - 38% in the Democratic primary.[20]
After losing toCharles Rangel in the Democratic primary for Congress, Espaillat announced candidacy for reelection to his state senate seat, facing former city councilmanRobert Jackson.[21] He was reelected with 50.3% of the vote to Jackson's 42.7%.[22]
In 2011, Espaillat led the fight to safeguard and strengthen rent regulation for over 1 million affordable housing apartments that was set to expire that year.[23] While tenant protections had been weakened in the past, the agreement reached that year made it more difficult to convert affordable housing to market rate and created a new Tenant Protection Unit within the state's housing agency.
Espaillat also passed legislation increasing enforcement against businesses that sell alcohol to minors and authored the Notary Public Advertising Act, to crack down on public notaries who prey on vulnerable immigrants by offering fraudulent legal services.[24] He voted in favor of marriage equality legislation in 2011.[25]
In 2012, Espaillat ran in the Democratic primary for New York's 13th congressional district, in a crowded field that included 42-year incumbent Charles Rangel. The seat had long been a majority-black district, but redistricting after the 2010 census made it a 55% Hispanic-majority district.[26]
In the Democratic primary, which effectively determined the outcome in this heavily Democratic district, Rangel defeated Espaillat by a narrow margin, receiving 44% of the vote to Espaillat's 42%. The margin of victory was fewer than 1,000 votes. Espaillat carried the Bronx portion of the district and several areas in Upper Manhattan.[27]
The election was marked by reports that Spanish-speaking voters were either turned away at the polls or forced to use affidavit ballots.[28] TheNew York City Board of Elections was also sharply criticized for its poor handling of the election and subsequent legal proceedings.[29]
In 2014, Espaillat ran against Rangel again, losing for the second consecutive time, 47.7% to 43.1%.
In November 2015, Espaillat announced he would give up his state senate seat to run for Congress again. He was running for an open seat; Rangel had announced in 2014 that he would not seek a 22nd term in 2016.[30] In the Democratic primary, Espaillat narrowly defeated his nearest challenger, state assemblymanKeith L. T. Wright, with 36% of the vote. This made him an overwhelming favorite in the general election, which he won with 89% of the vote.
When Espaillat took office on January 3, 2017, he became only the third person to represent what is now the 13th in 72 years.Adam Clayton Powell Jr. held the district from 1945 to 1971; Rangel had won the seat after defeating Powell in the 1970 primary. The district had been numbered as the 22nd district from 1945 to 1953, the 16th from 1953 to 1963, the 18th from 1963 to 1973, the 19th from 1973 to 1983, the 16th from 1983 to 1993, the 15th from 1993 to 2013, and has been the 13th since 2013.
Espaillat ran for a second term and defeated Republican Jineea Butler in the general election, winning 94.6% of the vote.[31]
Espaillat ran for a third term and defeated Republican Lovelynn Gwinn in the general election, winning 90.8% of the vote.[32]
Espaillat ran for a fourth term and was unopposed in the general election.[33]
Espaillat ran for a fifth term and defeated Republican Ruben Vargas in the general election, winning 83.5% of the vote.[34]
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Espaillat serves as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and the Committee on Small Business. He is a member of theCongressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) and was appointed chair of the CHC Task Force for Transportation, Infrastructure and Housing.
In August 2017, after the2017 Unite the Right rally inCharlottesville, Virginia, Espaillat and Pennsylvania RepresentativeDwight E. Evans introduced legislation banningConfederate monuments on federal property.[35]
Prior to 2017, no one had attempted to be in both the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. In the2016 House elections, after Espaillat defeated Rangel in the Democratic primary. Espaillat, anAfro-Latino, signaled that he wanted to join the CBC as well as the CHC, but it was reported that he was rebuffed, and it was insinuated that the cause was bad blood over his repeated primary challenges of Rangel in previous cycles.[36][37]
Espaillat has been critical ofBrazil's presidentJair Bolsonaro. In March 2019 he and 29 other Democratic lawmakers wrote Secretary of StateMike Pompeo a letter that read in part, "Since the election of far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro as president, we have been particularly alarmed by the threat Bolsonaro's agenda poses to the LGBTQ+ community and other minority communities, women, labor activists, and political dissidents in Brazil."[38][39]
In January 2023, Espaillat introduced a resolution (H.Res.28) condemning the Supreme Court's decision to overturnRoe v. Wade andPlanned Parenthood v. Casey as well as committing to advancing reproductive justice and judicial reform. On February 1, 2023, Espaillat was named Ranking Member of the Legislative Branch Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. The same month, Espaillat introduced a bill (H.R 1124) which would abolish the death penalty under Federal law.
Since being elected to Congress, Espaillat has sought to build a network ofDominican elected officials in and around his district, frequently dubbed "The Squadriano" (a portmanteau of "Adriano" and "the Squad").[40] Espaillat is a member of the Vote Blue Coalition, a progressive group andfederal PAC created to support Democrats in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania through voter outreach and mobilization efforts.[41]
Following his win for a fifth term, Espaillat was elected as the first Black chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in November 2024.[42]
In March 2021, Espaillat and RepresentativeBrad Schneider proposed legislation to regulateprivately made firearms. This was pitched as an effort to curbgun violence.[53][54]
Espaillat visited an immigration detention facility inCarrizo Springs, Texas, vowing that the U.S. needs to do a better job of connecting migrant children detained at the southern border with their families.[55] The first former undocumented immigrant in Congress, Espaillat claimed he overstayed a tourist visa in the 1960s and is a staunch supporter of theAmerican Dream and Promise Act.[56]
In 2019, Espaillat supported theIsrael Anti-Boycott Act, an effort that called for criminal penalties of up to $1 million for companies that supportthe Boycott, Divest and Sanctions Movement against Israel.[57] In August 2019, he released a statement condemning Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu's decision to deny RepresentativesRashida Tlaib andIlhan Omar entry into Israel.[58] In 2023, he voted to provide Israel with support following theOctober 7 attacks.[59][60]
In 2023, Espaillat was among 56 Democrats to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21 which directed PresidentJoe Biden to remove U.S. troops fromSyria within 180 days.[61][62]
Espaillat was among the 46 Democrats who voted against final passage of theFiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.[63]
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Guillermo Linares | 1,843 | 30.06 | |
| Democratic | María A. Luna | 1,585 | 25.85 | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat | 1,550 | 25.28 | |
| Democratic | Harry C. Fotopoulos | 860 | 14.03 | |
| Democratic | Raynard Edwards | 294 | 4.80 | |
| Total votes | 6,132 | 100.00 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Guillermo Linares | 4,901 | 84.79 | |
| Conservative | Apolinar Trinidad | 460 | 7.96 | |
| Liberal | Adriano Espaillat | 419 | 7.25 | |
| Total votes | 5,780 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat | 3,604 | 52.95 | |
| Democratic | John Brian Murtaugh (incumbent) | 3,203 | 47.05 | |
| Total votes | 6,807 | 100.00 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat | 15,098 | 81.01 | |
| Liberal | John Brian Murtaugh (incumbent) | 2,216 | 11.89 | |
| Republican | Hector Ramirez | 1,174 | 6.30 | |
| Independence | Theo Maltas | 150 | 0.81 | |
| Total votes | 18,638 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 4,323 | 64.66 | |
| Democratic | Isabel Evangelista | 2,363 | 35.34 | |
| Total votes | 6,686 | 100.00 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 12,387 | 92.16 | |
| Republican | Faisal M. Sipra | 793 | 5.90 | |
| Independence | Elizabeth Elliotte | 261 | 1.94 | |
| Total votes | 13,441 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 20,724 | 92.05 | |
| Republican | Nilda Luz Rexach | 1,610 | 7.15 | |
| Conservative | David J. Brache | 179 | 0.80 | |
| Total votes | 22,513 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 5,652 | 79.85 | |
| Democratic | Rubén Dario Vargas | 1,426 | 20.15 | |
| Total votes | 7,078 | 100.00 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 8,820 | 85.03 | |
| Republican | Nilda Luz Rexach | 1,320 | 12.73 | |
| Independence | Jose Reyes | 233 | 2.25 | |
| Total votes | 10,373 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 22,230 | 91.85 | |
| Republican | Martin Chicon | 1,973 | 8.15 | |
| Total votes | 24,203 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 3,975 | 68.15 | |
| Democratic | Francesca Castellanos | 1,156 | 19.82 | |
| Democratic | Miguel Estrella | 702 | 12.04 | |
| Total votes | 5,833 | 100.00 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 14,176 | 90.02 | |
| Republican | Martin Chicon | 1,109 | 7.04 | |
| Coalition | Francesca Castellanos | 463 | 2.94 | |
| Total votes | 15,748 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 4,542 | 54.06 | |
| Democratic | Miguel Martinez | 3,860 | 45.94 | |
| Total votes | 8,402 | 100.00 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 26,712 | 94.15 | |
| Republican | Bill Buran | 1,661 | 5.85 | |
| Total votes | 28,373 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat | 13,499 | 52.57 | |
| Democratic | Mark Levine | 9,696 | 37.76 | |
| Democratic | Anna R. Lewis | 1,942 | 7.56 | |
| Democratic | Miosotis Munoz | 541 | 2.11 | |
| Total votes | 25,678 | 100.00 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat | 50,007 | 83.88 | |
| Republican | Stylo A. Sapaskis | 6,388 | 10.72 | |
| Green | Ann J. Roos | 2,158 | 3.62 | |
| Conservative | Raphael M. Klapper | 964 | 1.62 | |
| independent (politician) | Mark Levine (write-in) | 59 | 0.10 | |
| Write-in | 44 | 0.07 | ||
| Total votes | 59,620 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 11,138 | 61.29 | |
| Democratic | Guillermo Linares | 6,927 | 38.12 | |
| Write-in | 107 | 0.59 | ||
| Total votes | 18,172 | 100.00 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 84,944 | 91.11 | |
| Republican | Martin Chicon | 8,184 | 8.78 | |
| Write-in | 106 | 0.11 | ||
| Total votes | 93,234 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 10,439 | 49.89 | |
| Democratic | Robert Jackson | 9,019 | 43.10 | |
| Democratic | Luis M. Tejada | 1,466 | 7.01 | |
| Total votes | 20,924 | 100.00 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 37,089 | 99.19 | |
| Write-in | 301 | 0.81 | ||
| Total votes | 37,390 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Charles Rangel (incumbent) | 19,187 | 44.45 | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat | 18,101 | 41.93 | |
| Democratic | Clyde Edward Williams Jr. | 4,266 | 9.88 | |
| Democratic | Joyce S. Johnson | 1,018 | 2.36 | |
| Democratic | Craig Schley | 598 | 1.39 | |
| Total votes | 43,170 | 100.00 | ||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Charles Rangel (incumbent) | 23,799 | 47.76 | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat | 21,477 | 43.10 | |
| Democratic | Michael A. Walrond Jr. | 3,954 | 7.94 | |
| Democratic | Yolanda Garcia | 597 | 1.20 | |
| Total votes | 49,827 | 100.00 | ||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat | 16,377 | 35.87 | |
| Democratic | Keith L. T. Wright | 15,528 | 34.01 | |
| Democratic | Clyde Edward Williams Jr. | 5,003 | 10.96 | |
| Democratic | Adam Clayton Powell IV | 2,986 | 6.54 | |
| Democratic | Guillermo Linares | 2,504 | 5.49 | |
| Democratic | Suzan Johnson Cook | 2,341 | 5.13 | |
| Democratic | Michael Gallagher | 435 | 0.95 | |
| Democratic | Sam Sloan | 227 | 0.50 | |
| Democratic | Yohanny Caceres | 116 | 0.25 | |
| Write-in | 138 | 0.30 | ||
| Total votes | 45,655 | 100.00 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat | 207,194 | 88.64 | |
| Republican | Robert A. Evans Jr. | 13,129 | 5.62 | |
| Independence | Robert A. Evans Jr. | 2,960 | 1.27 | |
| Total | Robert A. Evans Jr. | 16,089 | 6.88 | |
| Green | Daniel Vila Rivera | 8,248 | 3.53 | |
| independent (politician) | Scott L. Fenstermaker | 1,877 | 0.80 | |
| Write-in | 329 | 0.14 | ||
| Total votes | 233,737 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat | 171,341 | 89.85 | |
| Working Families | Adriano Espaillat | 8,694 | 4.56 | |
| Total | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 180,035 | 94.41 | |
| Republican | Jineea Butler | 9,535 | 5.00 | |
| Reform | Jineea Butler | 733 | 0.38 | |
| Total | Jineea Butler | 10,268 | 5.38 | |
| Write-in | 385 | 0.20 | ||
| Total votes | 190,688 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Primary election | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 46,066 | 58.94 | |
| Democratic | James Felton Keith | 19,799 | 25.33 | |
| Democratic | Ramon Rodriguez | 11,859 | 15.17 | |
| Write-in | 434 | 0.56 | ||
| Total votes | 78,158 | 100.00 | ||
| General election | ||||
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat | 202,916 | 79.46 | |
| Working Families | Adriano Espaillat | 28,925 | 11.33 | |
| Total | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 231,841 | 90.79 | |
| Republican | Lovelynn "Love" Gwinn | 19,829 | 7.77 | |
| Conservative | Christopher Morris-Perry | 3,295 | 1.29 | |
| Write-in | 405 | 0.16 | ||
| Total votes | 255,370 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 116,589 | 98.93 | |
| Write-in | 1,257 | 1.07 | ||
| Total votes | 117,846 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Adriano Espaillat (incumbent) | 181,800 | 83.02 | |
| Republican | Ruben Vargas | 32,071 | 14.65 | |
| Conservative | Ruben Vargas | 3,751 | 1.71 | |
| Total | Ruben Vargas | 35,822 | 16.36 | |
| Write-in | 1,351 | 0.62 | ||
| Total votes | 218,973 | 100.00 | ||
| Democratichold | ||||
Mr. Espaillat says he is a descendant of one of the Dominican Republic's most notable political figures — Ulises Francisco Espaillat, who held the presidency for about five months in 1876.
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| Preceded by | Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNew York's 17th congressional district 2017–present | Incumbent |
| Preceded by | Chair of theCongressional Hispanic Caucus 2025–present | |
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