FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL

POLITICO - October 6, 2025

NEWSFLASH: Former WNYC news anchor Jami Floyd is considering a run for the congressional seat held by the retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler, and could file a campaign committee as soon as this month, her adviser told Playbook.

An attorney who was a White House fellow in the Clinton administration, Floyd helped launch Court TV and had a decades-long career in journalism before resigning from WNYC in 2022 amid accusations of plagiarism. She sued alleging racial discrimination and retaliatory harassment and settled out of court last year. Floyd’s now publishing a book on Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and sits on the community board covering the Upper West Side.

Floyd, who is 61 years old, is pitching herself as “no-nonsense, moderate and centrist” and an insurgent without Democratic Party support.

Assemblymember Micah Lasher, Rhodes Scholar Liam Elkind, attorney Laura Dunn and Wall Street fundraiser Alan Pardee have already filed for the open primary in June 2026. Other potential candidates include City Council Member Erik Bottcher and Assemblymember Alex Bores. — Jeff Coltin