纽约初选进步派大胜，民主党内部裂痕加深

Progressive Democrats dominated last night's midterm primary elections in New York and a resounding show of strength for the Democratic Socialist mayor of New York City. All three candidates endorsed by Mayor Zoran Mamdani won their races, two of them ousting sitting congressmen. Dari Eliza Avila Chevalier, a Democratic Socialist, beat 5-term incumbent Adriano Espaillat in New York's 13th Congressional District. Claire Valdez, another Democratic socialist, won the open seat primary in New York ' s 7th congressional district, and Brad Lander, bested incumbent Congressman Dan Goldman in New York's 10th congressional district.

Lander won by some 30 points in a race that heavily focused on the candidates' differences over Israel policy. Democrats are painfully divided by our differences over the US relationship to Israel and Palestine, and we have to face up to it squarely. Our party needs to admit that Joe Biden's hug BB strategy was a catastrophic failure. The enemy to all that we want and all that we hope for. is in the White House not in our own party.

President Trump for his part responded to the results in several social media posts, one saying, quote, America the Beautiful will never be a communist country. To break it all down, we're joined by Brigid Bergin, senior politics reporter for New York Public Radio. Bridget, thanks for being with us. Great to join you. So the mayor of New York City, Mayor Mamdani, he spoke at one of the victory parties last night. Here's a bit of what he had to say. a year ago tomorrow. was not an anomaly.

It was not the end It was the beginning So how much of what we saw last night is unique to New York City politics. It's demographics, it's activist networks, it's political culture, and how much should Democrats elsewhere view as a signal of what might come in the November midterms. Yeah, I mean, I think it's fair to say that Democratic politics in the country have their roots right here in New York City. It's where a Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries, uh, represents a district in Brooklyn and it's also where Senate minority Leader Chuck Schumer is from, also in Brooklyn, uh, and so I think part of what we're seeing here is when we talk about a challenge to the establishment that challenged lands right at the footsteps of the leaders of the Democratic Party.

Uh, I think it is likely as we are seeing in elections in other parts of the country. Um, you know, I think of the mayor of Washington DC is a recent example, an increased number of democratic socialist candidates running for office, and potentially challenging incumbents and as in the case of New York City, they may be successful. These democratic socialists, how do they define themselves? What are their policy goals?

What distinguishes them from mainstream Democrats. So they center working class New Yorkers, in this case, uh, and they censor the needs of those individuals that they are definitely more pro-Palestinian and take a lot of objection to the