A good night for NYC progressives
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Not a bad showing for the DSA. Lander, Chevalier, and Valdez win their primaries. All endorsed by Mamdani. It should be mentioned that Jeffries endorsed their opponents (at least in the case of Lander and Chevalier, I don't know about Valdez).
I am heartened because the Democratic party is so desperately in need of new blood. A transfusion can't come soon enough. Jeffries needs to go. Schumer needs to go. Out with the old, in with the new.
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Yeah Mamdani had a good night that’s for sure (though Richie Torres had an easy victory in the South Bronx). It remains to be seen how well DSA types do outside of the bluest of blue districts though.
Lander’s victory didn’t surprise me he probably has better name recognition than the incumbent Dan Goldman (my old rep when I was in Brooklyn)
Chevalier’s win was more of a surprise to me - the guy she took out leads the Hispanic caucus in the house. She isn’t well known outside NYC but I suspect she’ll be starring in a lot of GOP ads. She took the most extreme positions on defunding police which haven’t aged very well.
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If you had asked me yesterday I would have said that he opportunistically went much further left during the Cuomo/Mamdani matchup when he saw which way the tea leaves were blowing.
But apparently that’s not the case. ChatGPT told me just this morning that he started affiliating with the DSA in 2016 and actually disassociated himself from the party (if not the beliefs) after 10/7 given the DSAs reaction.
I had thought of him as something of a centrist Democrat but then I left the city in 2013 and he later ran for city comptroller which is a pretty technocratic position.
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Yeah Mamdani had a good night that’s for sure (though Richie Torres had an easy victory in the South Bronx). It remains to be seen how well DSA types do outside of the bluest of blue districts though.
Lander’s victory didn’t surprise me he probably has better name recognition than the incumbent Dan Goldman (my old rep when I was in Brooklyn)
Chevalier’s win was more of a surprise to me - the guy she took out leads the Hispanic caucus in the house. She isn’t well known outside NYC but I suspect she’ll be starring in a lot of GOP ads. She took the most extreme positions on defunding police which haven’t aged very well.
Chevalier’s win was more of a surprise to me - the guy she took out leads the Hispanic caucus in the house. She isn’t well known outside NYC but I suspect she’ll be starring in a lot of GOP ads. She took the most extreme positions on defunding police which haven’t aged very well.
A couple of things that went against Espaillat: He's already a 5 term incumbent, people want change. His campaign got nasty with racism; wrong political climate for that from a Democrat against another Democrat. What is it with establishment Democrats getting all racist!?
She did take very far left positions on defunding the police. It's surprising that Espaillat's camp went nasty with racist comments when they had legitimate fodder. She has repeatedly stated that she has moved on from those positions and she has apologized more than once for some other things she said. It remains to be seen how well she moves on from there.
But her seat is assured in November.
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