The Democrats will go to their Milwaukee Presidential nominating convention with no clear cut candidate leaving Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders with the most delegates and Mike Bloomberg as the dark horse candidate. If Sanders gets the nomination he will lose to Donald Trump in the general election. If Biden gets the nomination he will pick Stacy Abrams from Georgia as his running mate. Donald Trump will narrowly beat Biden and get re-elected for a second term.
Assemblymember Mathylde Frontus (D-Coney Island, Bay Ridge) will overcome intense political rivalry and solidify a stronger than ever coalition in Coney Island between the area’s black and Jewish community.
Assemblymember Latrice Walker (D-Brownsville) will narrowly beat back a primary challenge from former City Council Member Darlene Mealy in the Democratic primary for her seat, and will announce she is running for Borough President.
Assemblymember Rodneyse Bichotte (D-Flatbush, Ditmas Park) will set up an exploratory committee to run for mayor in 2021.
City Councilmember Kalman Yeger (D-Borough Park, Bensonhurst, Midwood, Sheephead Bay) and Palestinian Activist Linda Sarsour will participate in a panel discussion/forum on Anti-Semitism in New York City.
Bay Ridge will see extremely competitive general elections for U.S. Rep. Max Rose’s congressional seat, State Sen. Andrew Gounardes seat and Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis’ vacant assembly seat. No prediction on who will win.
Former KCP Senior Editor and Brooklyn Eagle Reporter Kelly Mena will become a major CNN broadcast journalist leading up to and covering the 2020 presidential election. Former KCP and Brooklyner reporter Kadia Goba, who is now at Buzzfeed, will get a job with the New York Times.
KCP Friday Fiction writer Garth Miro will score a major publishing deal for his fiction, and comedian Eagle Witt, son of KCP publisher/editor Stephen Witt, will land three major television and/or movie credits.
KCP, and its sister papers Queens County Politics and New York County Politics, will continue to grow while grooming a new batch of reporters, who will go on to bigger and better things, leaving publisher/founder Stephen Witt with continued bittersweet feelings and increasing angst as he ponders the meaning of politics, governing, ambition and life. This, in turn, leads to a brainstorm premise and start to his third novel.
The Brooklyn Nets make the NBA playoffs and win their first-round series.
