Dan Goldman touts results, not rhetoric, in battle for NY-10

Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News on Jun 12, 2026

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NEW YORK — Dan Goldman never imagined running for Congress, until he saw the threat posed by President Donald Trump’s powerful comeback from political oblivion.

The Democratic lawyer and former federal prosecutor said someone like him was needed on Capitol Hill to push back against Trump’s meteoric return to political power after he spearheaded the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

“This was never my plan but when I saw Donald Trump resurrecting himself after Jan. 6, I knew I had to jump into the race,” Goldman told The New York Daily News. “I wanted to use my experience to push back on the corruption and political violence.”

Goldman, 50, who moved to Manhattan nearly three decades ago, won what was then a newly created NY-10 district in a crowded 2022 race and says being a former prosecutor has made him an invaluable contributor to the effort to push back against Trump’s aggressive second-term agenda.

He vows to play an even bigger role if Democrats retake the House of Representatives in the midterms and launch a fresh round of investigations into Trump’s alleged misdeeds.

“That’s a unique skill set that I bring,” Goldman said. “It’s unfortunate that it is so important right now.”

Goldman, a two-term incumbent, faces a tough challenge in the June 23 Democratic primary from ex-comptroller and mayoral candidate Brad Lander.

Polls show Goldman trailing Lander even though the incumbent has lined up the backing of Gov. Kathy Hochul, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and some prominent unions.

Goldman, a married father of five who lives in Battery Park City, paints himself as a can-do dealmaker in Congress who seeks bipartisan compromise with Republican colleagues whenever possible.

“I have a fresh and creative approach to the job,” he said. “It helps me get a lot of things done in the district, by finding progressive solutions to problems faced by everyday New Yorkers.”

He ticks off issues like tax reform and immigration, where he claims to have won significant improvements in conditions on the ground by repeatedly carrying out oversight visits to detention centers for undocumented immigrants ensnared in Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

Goldman says he seeks to balance holding Trump’s feet to the fire (he served as top staff attorney on Democrats’ first Trump impeachment effort) with trying to reach deals to get stuff done (he won a GOP colleague’s support for an offshore wind power project).

He admits not coming across as a firebrand.

“I’m very much focused on delivering results for the people,” Goldman said. “What’s been very frustrating is there are many bipartisan bills that are supported by both sides of the aisle but because Donald Trump views bipartisanship as a dirty word, they don’t get enacted into law.”