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AI companies have turned a Manhattan House Democratic primary into a $20 million spending contest, pitting candidates Bores, Lasher, and Schlossberg against each other in what amounts to an industry-funded referendum on federal artificial intelligence policy.
The race has drawn outsized attention precisely because the dollar figure is extraordinary for a district-level contest, signaling how seriously the sector is treating legislative influence at this stage of the policy cycle.
A Primary as Proxy War The Manhattan contest features three candidates — Bores, Lasher, and Schlossberg — competing in a Democratic primary where AI interest groups have chosen to concentrate significant resources.
The $20 million figure places this race in a category typically reserved for competitive Senate or gubernatorial contests, not intraparty House fights in a single New York district.
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