{"id":4880,"date":"2026-06-23T19:34:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:34:33","slug":"mamdani-is-backing-leftist-candidates-taking-on-incumbents-in-nyc-see-live-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani is backing leftist candidates taking on incumbents in NYC. See live results."},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic socialists are mounting challenges to Reps. Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat in these competitive primaries.<\/strong><\/p>

Read more NHL exploring Texas expansion opportunities in Houston and Austin, AP source says<\/a><\/p>\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n
Democratic congressional candidates Claire Valdez, Brad Lander and Darializa Avila Chevalier clasp hands onstage with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, second from right, during a rally Thursday in Brooklyn. (Ryan Murphy\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

A slew of competitive Democratic primaries in New York on Tuesday are putting the spotlight on Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) in a test for his political brand and the democratic socialist movement that powered his rise.<\/p>\n

Mamdani has put his weight behind three candidates in closely watched House races in New York City, including two who are challenging incumbents and another battling against the handpicked successor of a retiring congresswoman.<\/p>\n

Together, the races \u2014 spanning pockets of Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx \u2014 could foretell broader trends within the Democratic Party\u2018s base.<\/p>\n

And they will show how the aging working-class voters who elected one generation of progressive leaders may contend with the young, growing and even further left movement now challenging those officials on issues such as Israel policy and their ties to wealthy donors or machine politics.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what to watch in Tuesday\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n

As the Democratic Socialists of America looks to expand its ranks in Congress, two races in New York City are exposing ideological and generational tensions between that insurgent left movement and the organizations that once represented the beating heart of the city\u2019s left.<\/p>\n

In uptown Manhattan and the Bronx, Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D), chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, is facing his most competitive challenge in his decade in office from Darializa Avila Chevalier, a doctoral student and community organizer who worked on Mamdani\u2019s campaign and has said Espaillat has failed to deliver for his mostly working-class constituents.<\/p>\n

Espaillat, the first formerly undocumented person elected to Congress and a powerful figure in uptown politics, has received a rush of outside spending in his behalf as he dismisses Avila Chevalier as an out-of-touch transplant to the area.<\/p>

Read more US eases restriction on Iran\u2019s World Cup team, allowing travel 2 days before next match<\/a><\/p>\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n
Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-New York) speaks to reporters outside an immigration detention center in Newark in May. (Seth Wenig\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

In a battle with some similar dynamics, the retiring Rep. Nydia M. Vel\u00e1zquez (D) has backed Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president and longtime progressive, for what\u2019s increasingly known as the city\u2019s \u201cCommie corridor.\u201d But he is battling against State Assembly member Claire Valdez (D), who has painted herself as a better match for the district\u2019s increasingly leftward tendencies even though the two candidates are almost identically aligned ideologically.<\/p>\n

Both districts have undergone steady demographic change over the past several years, and politicos will be eyeing how each candidate performs among the more college-educated, Whiter and younger voters that overwhelmingly supported Mamdani \u2014 as well as the labor unions and Black and Latino areas that once powered the city\u2019s left.<\/p>\n

Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller and former candidate for mayor, has not formally received a DSA endorsement. Yet he is also backed by Mamdani, and his race against Rep. Dan Goldman (D) may feature some of the same dynamics in a downtown Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn district. The race has largely highlighted their differences on U.S. policy toward Israel and Gaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n
Rep. Dan Goldman (D-New York), left, chats with voter Jay Schruba outside a polling station in Manhattan on Tuesday. (Laura Brett\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The most closely watched primary outside New York City features three Democrats angling to challenge Rep. Michael Lawler (R) in a Hudson Valley district considered one of the party\u2019s top targets because its voters narrowly went for Kamala Harris in 2024.<\/p>\n

Both Democrats and Republicans once anticipated a barnburner of a primary, but neither party has a contested primary for governor this year.<\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), who was at one point being challenged by her former lieutenant governor, is unopposed; so is Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman (R). In a state where Republicans have not won statewide in more than two decades, Hochul is expected to have the upper hand as she seeks a second full term.<\/p>

Read more Blazers hire Wolves assistant Micah Nori as head coach, a year after Chauncey Billups\u2019 sudden exit<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See the latest New York primary election results as democratic socialist candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani compete in U.S. House races. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"\nMamdani is backing leftist candidates taking on incumbents in NYC. See live results. - Moving Insider USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mamdani is backing leftist candidates taking on incumbents in NYC. See live results. - Moving Insider USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"See the latest New York primary election results as democratic socialist candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani compete in U.S. House races.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Moving Insider USA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-06-23T19:34:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6557ac360629e568176d5b07579fd673-scaled.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2560\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=4880#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=4880\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/22d40ab81790f6a361021763bb56ef03\"},\"headline\":\"Mamdani is backing leftist candidates taking on incumbents in NYC. See live results.\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-23T19:34:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=4880\"},\"wordCount\":745,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=4880#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/6f0498a2fb5ac3500d04b6b52bfb2b75-scaled.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Interesting\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=4880#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=4880\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=4880\",\"name\":\"Mamdani is backing leftist candidates taking on incumbents in NYC. See live results. - Moving Insider USA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=4880#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=4880#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/6f0498a2fb5ac3500d04b6b52bfb2b75-scaled.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-23T19:34:33+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/22d40ab81790f6a361021763bb56ef03\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=4880#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=4880\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=4880#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/6f0498a2fb5ac3500d04b6b52bfb2b75-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/6f0498a2fb5ac3500d04b6b52bfb2b75-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1707,\"caption\":\"Democratic congressional candidates, Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, and Darializa Avila Chevalier gesture on stage with Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a Get Out The Vote rally ahead of New York's primary election, Thursday, June 18, 2026, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo\\\/Ryan Murphy)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?p=4880#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Mamdani is backing leftist candidates taking on incumbents in NYC. See live results.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/\",\"name\":\"Moving Insider USA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/22d40ab81790f6a361021763bb56ef03\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movinginsiderusa.com\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mamdani is backing leftist candidates taking on incumbents in NYC. See live results. - Moving Insider USA","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mamdani is backing leftist candidates taking on incumbents in NYC. See live results. - Moving Insider USA","og_description":"See the latest New York primary election results as democratic socialist candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani compete in U.S. House races.","og_url":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880","og_site_name":"Moving Insider USA","article_published_time":"2026-06-23T19:34:33+00:00","og_image":[{"width":2560,"height":1707,"url":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6557ac360629e568176d5b07579fd673-scaled.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"admin","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880"},"author":{"name":"admin","@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/#\/schema\/person\/22d40ab81790f6a361021763bb56ef03"},"headline":"Mamdani is backing leftist candidates taking on incumbents in NYC. See live results.","datePublished":"2026-06-23T19:34:33+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880"},"wordCount":745,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6f0498a2fb5ac3500d04b6b52bfb2b75-scaled.jpg","articleSection":["Interesting"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880","url":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880","name":"Mamdani is backing leftist candidates taking on incumbents in NYC. See live results. - Moving Insider USA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6f0498a2fb5ac3500d04b6b52bfb2b75-scaled.jpg","datePublished":"2026-06-23T19:34:33+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/#\/schema\/person\/22d40ab81790f6a361021763bb56ef03"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6f0498a2fb5ac3500d04b6b52bfb2b75-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6f0498a2fb5ac3500d04b6b52bfb2b75-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1707,"caption":"Democratic congressional candidates, Claire Valdez, Brad Lander, and Darializa Avila Chevalier gesture on stage with Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a Get Out The Vote rally ahead of New York's primary election, Thursday, June 18, 2026, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo\/Ryan Murphy)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=4880#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mamdani is backing leftist candidates taking on incumbents in NYC. See live results."}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/","name":"Moving Insider USA","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/#\/schema\/person\/22d40ab81790f6a361021763bb56ef03","name":"admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/50b1ad2e498f523425ee0a8cc5180a210646db1622662a3d56cc405d3e0c346a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"admin"},"sameAs":["http:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com"],"url":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}