Analysis: In a Trump district, a freshman House Democrat works on repeating his success
By Paul Kane Paul Kane Senior congressional correspondent and columnist Email Bio Follow April 27 at 6:00 AM HOOSICK FALLS, N.Y. — The crowd sat quietly inside a high school auditorium as their new congressman explained his nuanced views on the release of the report by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
Instead, high school students quizzed him about the opioid and mental-health crises. Local business people pleaded for a rural broadband program and workforce training. Organic farmers taught the 6-foot-4 former high school basketball star how to protect crops from violent hailstorms. And more than 75 constituents, at an evening town hall, pushed him on issues including climate change and the measles outbreak.
This was the key to Trump’s victory, winning over disaffected voters by railing against trade deals and warning of immigrants stealing jobs. In 2018, however, Democrats flipped eight of those districts, including New York’s 19th Congressional District. As he explained to about 100 high school students in Tannersville, about 50 miles south of Albany, Delgado parlayed his basketball skills into a college scholarship that led to his becoming a Rhodes scholar. He then went to Harvard Law, before fleeing for Los Angeles to briefly become a politically active hip-hop artist.
“To go high doesn’t necessarily mean to shirk, to go in a defensive posture,” he said in the interview, embracing the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent ethos. “From my vantage point, when the stakes get this high, they get this darkened, that’s all the more reason to double down.”
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