At 11:12 p.m. June 24, Bob Liff, a longtime consultant to Charlie Rangel, approached reporters in the Congressman’s election-night headquarters in the Taino Towers gymnasium on East 123rd St. to inform them that he would be coming down to make a statement in 10 minutes.
It seemed a bit early, given that the 22-term Congressman held just a four-point lead over State Sen. Adriano Espaillat with 31 percent of the ballots in the 13th Congressional District still to be tallied.
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