New York, NY - Dan Goldman, lead counsel for Donald Trump’s first impeachment and candidate for Congress in NY-10, today received the endorsement of Brooklyn Assemblymember Robert Carroll (AD-44). The endorsement follows Dan Goldman’s field-leading announcement that just one month since launching his campaign on June 1, he raised $1.2 million from over 2,100 individual donors with a median donation amount of $25. Goldman’s campaign continues to build momentum as the August 23 primary date approaches and he has quickly emerged as a frontrunner in the field, powered by widespread grassroots support for his unique skills and experience necessary to protect our democracy and fundamental rights.

“Assemblymember Carroll is an exceptional public servant with a track record of delivering for our community, and I am proud to earn his endorsement,” Dan Goldman said. “We are facing threats to our democracy, our fundamental rights, our safety and our planet; the stakes have never been higher. I led the successful impeachment of Donald Trump and have the courage, creativity and experience necessary to effectively take on the Radical Republicans in Congress. Defending our basic rights and values will take a whole-of-government approach, and I thank Bobby for standing with me in this existential fight.”

“With the National Republican Party set on dismantling democracy at the state and federal levels, we need a member of Congress who on day one has the skills and experience to fight back,” Assemblymember Robert Carroll said. “As the lead counsel during the first impeachment of Donald Trump, Dan Goldman showed himself to be an intelligent and tenacious fighter for our democracy. Dan is raising his kids in this district and I know he will be the best person to safeguard New York and our nation from an anti-democratic Republican Party that is still under Trump’s control.”

Robert Carroll was elected to the New York State Assembly in 2016. He represents neighborhoods in the 10th congressional district, including Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Kensington, and Borough Park.

He has been a leader in the Assembly on a host of issues, from authoring a portion of the landmark Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act and advocating for its passage to sponsoring and passing two property tax abatement bills for solar energy, including the first in the nation abatement for solar energy storage equipment or batteries. He was also the author and prime sponsor of the Low Embodied Carbon Concrete Leadership Act, a first in the nation bill to use the state's purchasing power to prioritize lower carbon concrete. Assemblymember Carroll is the leading literacy advocate in the legislature.

As a former election lawyer and member of the Election Law committee, Assemblymember Carroll has worked to reform New York’s antiquated voting laws by authoring multiple election law bills that have passed both the Senate and Assembly. In 2022 his bills to lower the deadline to register to vote to 10 days prior to an election and his 'wrong church' bill, which stops the invalidation of otherwise valid ballots because a voter appeared at the wrong polling site but the right county and assembly district, passed in both houses of the legislature. He is also the prime sponsor of the constitutional amendment for same day voter registration.

Assemblymember Carroll was born and raised in the 44th Assembly District in Brooklyn and attended PS 230 in Kensington as a child. He currently resides in Park Slope with his wife Virginia and they are expecting their first child in October.

Dan Goldman and his wife, Corinne, live in lower Manhattan where they are raising their five children. In 2019, Dan Goldman served as lead counsel for the impeachment investigation of President Donald J. Trump for abusing his office for his personal interest regarding Ukraine. In that role, Goldman led depositions and questioned witnesses in public hearings, and testified before the House Judiciary Committee.

Prior to that, Goldman served for a decade as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York working with Preet Bharara. In that role, he held powerful actors accountable and made our city safer. He took on some of the office’s biggest and most consequential cases: prosecuting violent criminals and gun trafficking, mafia bosses and Russian organized crime, and landmark insider trading and major corporate fraud cases. In law school, Goldman contributed to Michelle Alexander’s seminal book, The New Jim Crow, which addressed the inequalities in our criminal justice system.

The Democratic Primary in New York’s 10th congressional district is on Tuesday, August 23.