In a bid to counter-balance the power of soft-on-crime bail reform advocates in Albany, a new group backed by unions plans to boost moderate Democrats in this month’s state Senate primaries against AOC-backed progressive challengers and incumbent lefties. “New York is making a comeback. But Albany has failed us when it comes to the safety and the justice we deserve,” a narrator says on one television ad released Tuesday by the newly formed nonprofit “Safe New York.”

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