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*** Election Night Livewire *** Mamdani vs. the Establishment in Fight for Soul of Democrat Party 73%
By Bradley Jaye0%
6/23/2026, 9:42:53 AM
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is taking the Democrat Party establishment head-on in the greatest test of his political clout since his unlikely election victory in November.
Maryland and Utah join New York in holding primaries Tuesday, with South Carolina holding primary runoffs.
But most political prognosticators are fixated on New York, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), whose political fortunes hang on maintaining control over their evolving, increasingly radical Democrat caucuses.
Mamdani, a democratic socialist, has endorsed three candidates for the House of Representatives, each cut from his Marxist cloth and representing a significant challenge to the power structure that enabled Jeffries and Schumer to rise to the upper echelons of party power.
In the Seventh Congressional District, Mamdani endorsed New York State Assemblymember Clair Valdez over Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, who is the preferred replacement for outgoing Rep.
Nadia Velazquez (D-NY).
But Mamdani isn’t simply endorsing against the candidate preferred by outgoing Democrat representatives.
He is taking on incumbent Democrats too.
In the Tenth Congressional District, Mamdani endorsed his former rival for mayor, Brad Lander, over Rep.
Dan Goldman (D-NY).
Polls show Goldman, who made his career opposing Trump, even serving as an impeachment manager, running behind Lander, who has framed Goldman as not radical enough for an evolving party.
The race has turned ugly, with a New York coffee shop going viral the weekend before the primary for denying Goldman entry due to his support for Israel.
In the Thirteenth Congressional District, Jeffries ally and incumbent Rep.
Adriano Espaillat is fighting back a challenge from Mamdani-endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier.
A community organizer from Harlem, Chevalier's past statements and positions have generated controversy as she’s rocketed up the polls – she apologized for posting “fuck Kamala Harris,” which contributed to Mamdani clarifying that he was not aware of all her past positions, while maintaining his support.
In Washington, Espaillat leads the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, a powerful block in the House Democratic Caucus that is facing an erosion of race and ethnicity-based power centers as progressives bring a broader class warfare focus to Washington.
Other New York Democrat primaries hold intrigue.
The Twelfth Congressional District democrat primary is as notable for who may not survive as who might prevail.
New York Assemblymembers Alex Bores and Micah Lasher are projected to emerge atop the pack of a crowded race to replace retiring Rep.
Jerry Nadler (D-NY).
But former Republican (and wannabe Trump administration official) George Conway, who left the party after a painfully public, political brouhaha with then-wife and Trump loyalist Kellyanne Conway, appears likely to finish no higher than third.
And Jack Schlossberg, the outspoken and flamboyant Camelot scion and son of Caroline Kennedy, has struggled to turn his outlandish social media clout into a base of support.
But the three races in which Mamdani is taking on the leaders of the Democratic establishment will be the most instructive.
Many traditional coalitions, power centers, and sacred cows of the party could be history by Tuesday evening, or if the results are an indication, within an election cycle or two.
Docile race-based coalitions, long the most reliable centers for support for House Democratic leadership, could take another, perhaps near-fatal, blow.
Support for Israel, once a given for Democratic politicians, could complete its transformation to albatross.
Even leading the political – and legal – effort to defeat Trump may no longer be enough for the new class of ascendant radicals birthed by Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's unlikely primary victory over incumbent Democrat Rep.
Joe Crowley – then seen as the most likely successor to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
Ironically, with a base rapidly changing through the unchecked migration it championed for decades, old-guard Democrats may now be facing the end of their political control, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Who this party could possibly elevate as its nominee for president in 2028 is anyone’s guess – but the ramifications are monumental.
Polls close at 7:00 p.m.
ET in South Carolina, 8:00 p.m.
ET in Maryland, 9:00 p.m.
ET in New York, and 10:00 p.m.
ET in Utah.
This story will be updated throughout the evening.
UPDATE 7:56 p.m.
ET:
Attorney General Alan Wilson will win the Republican runoff for the governor's nomination, the Associated Press projected at 7:26 p.m.
ET.
His opponent, Lt.
Gov.
Pamela Evette led after the primary, in no small part due to President Donald Trump's endorsement.
But in the runoff after the crowded field was winnowed to two, Wilson got out to a big lead.
Trump soon co-endorsed, throwing his support behind Wilson as well.
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