After New Yorks Primary Elections, Democrats Face Five Big Questions

The dust is settling in New York City after an extraordinary Primary Day that showed how the success of the anti-establishment, socialist-leaning left in last year’s mayor’s race was not an aberration.Here, at least, it is plainly ascendant.“A year ago, it was not the end of a political movement,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at a victory party in Brooklyn last night, where supporters chanted “Free, free Palestine” and “D.S.A.,” my colleague Nicholas Fandos reported.“It was the beginning.”So, what’s next? My colleagues who cover New York City have takeaways for you, and my Politics colleagues Jennifer Medina and Reid Epstein wrote about how the New York City results are the latest to show just how skeptical many Democrats have become of Israel and its actions.“While many Democratic officials remain supportive of Israel, next year’s class of congressional Democrats is on track to be more wary about America’s relationship with Israel than at any other moment since the Jewish state was established,” they wrote, after three sharp critics of Israel won their House primaries yesterday in New York City.Today, I want to take stock of a few other national implications of yesterday’s results in New York.

Here are five questions I have:How shaken is the party establishment?Last night, the retiring Representative Nydia Velázquez — seen as a towering figure in Latino and liberal city politics — watched her preferred successor get crushed.And two incumbent Democratic congressmen, Representatives Dan Goldman and Adriano Espaillat, were ousted despite running robust campaigns.When I was covering New York City five years ago, I distinctly remember how deferential certain Manhattan politicians — across the seniority spectrum — were to “Adriano.” Now he is out, and a little-known, far-left activist (with a social media history Republicans will be delighted to highlight) is replacing him.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Pl...