Niou Won't Run As Third Party Candidate To Rep NYC's District 10

NEW YORK CITY — Assembly Member Yuh-Line Niou announced Tuesday she will not challenge primary winner Dan Goldman as a third party candidate in the race to represent Manhattan and Brooklyn's Congressional District 10.

"We simply do not have the resources to fight all the fights at the same time and we must protect our democracy now," Niou said in a video posted to Twitter. "Change is made only when we build together."

Niou lost the Democratic primary on Aug. 23 in a crowded race to claim a newly redistricted area and after an eyebrow-raising Goldman endorsement from the New York Times that did not mention her name.

In her seven-minute speech, the 65th Assembly District representative blamed her defeat on Goldman's large budget, the Democrat's failure to consolidate and the chaotic redistricting process that delayed her primary by months.

Goldman — an attorney who also earned former president Donald Trump's endorsement despite leading the charge against him in his first impeachment trial — was among several targets for ire in Niou's concession speech.

"I'm angry, and I know that all of you are too, and that we have a congress that has more millionaires than there are people of color or working class people " Niou said.

"Oligarchy is a system with where people with economic power use that power to grab political power ... let's call it by its name."

Niou had been considering a run with the progressive Working Families Party but said the absentee ballots count after the primary made it impossible.

The Assembly member promised to keep fighting for New Yorkers against the issues she raised in her campaign, and those that arose just this month.

"We have so many needs," Niou said of District 10. "This is the district that just found that out our public housing residents have arsenic in their drinking water."