Jami Floyd

Jami Floyd is a Democratic candidate for U.S. House in New York's 12th Congressional District in the 2026 election cycle. Floyd announced her candidacy for New York's 12th Congressional District in October 2025, following the retirement of incumbent Jerry Nadler, but withdrew from the race in February 2026. Floyd has served as a legal analyst at ABC News and previously worked as a legal analyst at MSNBC and a legal contributor to Al Jazeera America. Floyd is a former director of WNYC's Race and Justice Unit and was a White House Fellow in the Clinton Administration, where she worked in the office of First Lady Hillary Clinton. Floyd was born on September 10, 1964, in New York City and is multiracial, with a Black father and a white mother. She has two children with her husband, criminal defense and civil rights attorney Kurt Flehinger.

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