Insurgency Over Incumbency: 7 Takeaways From New York's Primaries

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : In Brooklyn, Mr. Lander, the former citywide official, hammered his opponent, Mr. Goldman, for receiving support from pro-Israel donors and AIPAC.
57% : With these electoral wins, Mr. Mamdani and the Democratic Socialists of America have the means to push an ambitious reform agenda.
56% : Mr. Mamdani's endorsement also helped five candidates, including democratic socialists, win state legislative seats.
52% : "She knows we're coming for her," said Gustavo Gordillo, co-chair of the city branch of the D.S.A. "I think we have to show New York what it means to have three democratic socialists in the congressional delegation," he added, saying that the organization is beginning to make plans for the 2028 election cycle.
50% : In backing the victorious democratic socialists, the one-term state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez and the activist and doctoral student Darializa Avila Chevalier, Mr. Mamdani, also a democratic socialist, put his faith in relatively untested contenders going up against better-known politicians.
49% : Mr. Mamdani thrust himself into three competitive House primaries, recruiting one democratic socialist and backing another.
47% : The D.S.A. pressed Ms. Hochul to raise income taxes on the wealthiest residents this year.
43% : And the campaign of Ms. Valdez, who won a seat that straddles Brooklyn and Queens, tried to persuade voters that her opponent, Antonio Reynoso, benefited from pro-Israel donors.
37% : And in doubling their numbers in the House from two to four, democratic socialists are more likely to try to push the body further to the left, creating a headache for establishment Democrats.
36% : The congressman supports Israel's right to exist, while criticizing its current leadership, and does not refer to the war in Gaza as a genocide, as Mr. Lander does.
34% : " Pro-Israel candidates are increasingly vulnerable.
32% : Mr. Mamdani may also be emboldened to remain outspoken in his criticisms of Israel and defense of Palestinians, an issue that matters deeply to him.
23% : With Democratic support for Israel cratering, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee laid low in a spate of congressional primaries in New York this cycle.
22% : She has called for an overhaul of the federal immigration system and criticized immigration and customs enforcement under the Trump administration.
16% : But AIPAC said it did not get involved in that race, Mr. Reynoso has long criticized Israel and the claims about pro-Israel donors could not be substantiated.
8% : Like Mr. Goldman, Mr. Espaillat has criticized Israel while defending its right to exist.

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