New York City Mayor Eric Adams said the “radical left” is “hijacking” the Democratic Party, pointing particularly to bathroom gender policies in schools. “We’re losing mainstream Democrats because of the radical left,

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani maintains a commanding lead in New York City mayoral race after defeating Andrew Cuomo in June primary election.

The chairman of the New York State Democratic Party announced on Thursday that he will not endorse New York City mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani, publicly breaking with Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY), who backed Mamdani earlier this week.

New York's governor and state Assembly speaker backed Mamdani this week. The top Democrats in Washington, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, haven't.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) said Monday that New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani “should be in the Socialist Party, not in the Democratic Party.” “Listen, I — I think he’s a very impressive candidate and — right?

I know people who insist that when they first heard Barack Obama’s keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, in Boston, they knew he would one day be President, and I confess that I had the same feeling when I first heard Wu.

The races are part of a recent trend of centrist and establishment Democrats using general elections to try to defeat more progressive primary winners.