Morning Digest: Third prominent Democrat joins race for bluest House seat held by a Republican

_{The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team.}

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● NY-04: State Sen. Kevin Thomas kicked off his campaign for New York's 4th Congressional District on Wednesday, making him the third notable Democrat to enter the race for the bluest seat in the country held by a Republican.

Thomas, who emigrated to the United States at the age of 10, scored a huge upset in 2018 when he unseated Republican incumbent Kemp Hannon, who had served in the legislature continuously since 1977. The unknown Thomas received almost no assistance from the Senate Democrats' campaign committee and ran no TV ads, but as Newsday's Yancey Roy put it, he ran an aggressive door-knocking campaign that "strategically wooed minority voters in a demographically changing district" with a burgeoning South Asian population.