Black candidates tap protest energy to challenge Democrats

NEW YORK (AP) — Amy McGrath and Eliot Engel live hundreds of miles apart in states with dramatically different politics. But on the eve of their primary elections in New York and Kentucky, the establishment favorites are facing similar political forces that jeopardize their political future. Engel is a 16-term House incumbent who represents parts of the Bronx and New York City’s suburbs. McGrath is a former military officer and fundraising juggernaut running in her first Kentucky Senate campaign. Each is fighting to defeat a younger Black candidate who has tapped into the wounded progressive movement’s desire for dramatic change that has been suddenly animated by sweeping civil rights protests.