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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani scored three major primary wins in his attempt to remake the Democratic Party into a democratic socialist force on Tuesday.
Mamdani-endorsed former city Comptroller Brad Lander defeated two-term Representative Dan Goldman, while Assembly member Claire Valdez beat Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso for an open congressional seat and activist Darializa Avila Chevalier narrowly defeated five-term Representative Adriano Espaillat, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Taken together, those constitute big wins for the 34-year-old mayor, who shocked the political world with his 2025 election and is now consolidating his political power.
The results in New York come on the heels of democratic socialist mayoral candidates winning the primary in Washington, DC, and making the runoff in Los Angeles.
