Can New York’s Progressives Stop Andrew Yang?
SINCE ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ ousted Joe Crowley in the June 2018 congressional Democratic primary, New York’s progressives have been steadily accruing electoral power. Several months later, a cohort of left-leaning candidates, backed by the Working Families Party (WFP), unseated a group of Democratic state legislators who had caucused with Republicans in Albany, while Julia Salazar, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), defeated eight-term-incumbent Martin Dilan in a race for a State Senate seat in Brooklyn. Last June, Jamaal Bowman who had the support of the progressive political action committee Justice Democrats and an endorsement from DSA successfully challenged 16-term-incumbent Eliot Engel in the congressional primary, and five DSA-backed candidates won nomination for seats in the state legislature. Today, the socialist contingent in Albany is the largest since 1919.
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