The largest socialist organization in the United States is to set the foundations to make one of his allies the next mayor of New York in the middle of a generational battle for the The identity of the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Representative of New York State, Zohran Mamdani, questions above almost all the moderate candidates of the primary race of his party – and increased the most money – with the support of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Experts have told the Daily Caller News Foundation that the race could shape the left -wing policy across the country by reinvigorating DSA candidates who have become more and more unpopular in the past four years.
“I think that the DSA candidate is absolutely able to win,” said Chris Talgo, a researcher for the curator Heartland Institute, at the DCNF.
Talgo co-written to report On the growing dynamics of distant campaigns on the left in 2024, which found that 94% of candidates approved by the DSA and two other socialist organizations won with an average margin of 49 points. Talgo said that the New York town hall race will be a “test case” for future ideological trends in democrats.
“Will they go more to the center, or will they go even more to the left?” Talgo told DCNF. “I think these kinds of races go … Give us an interesting image, you know, to that.”
“If Mamdani became mayor, the importance for the future of socialist policy would increase immeasurably, probably in a direct opposite proportion with New York fortune if his policies were implemented,” said the author and commentator Seth Barron to the DCNF. Barron mainly covers New York's policy and culture.
“Having the largest city in the country managed by a defender confessed to the distribution of radical wealth, funding Police and the arrest of Israeli citizens for “war crimes” would demonstrate that, at least in cities and blue states, the future of socialism is pink, “said Barron.
Mamdani questioned 22% for the June primary Delaying the 45% delay of the former Democrat of the Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo in an Honan strategy group survey in April. The DSA approved Mamdani in October and its number of surveys jumped 13 percentage points between January and April.
The campaigns of Mamdani and Cuomo did not respond to several requests for comments. (Related: Democrats who present themselves to the mayor in the city of New York, Vidard, back of the cops)
“Police funding ultimately consists in creating a balance.
As Mamdani says, it is not a question of eliminating “everything that creates evil in our society” or an invitation for chaos.
It is rather a chance to respond to the differently that we have. »» https://t.co/dwfz0eacn8
– Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani) June 5, 2020
If Mamdani wins the primary, he would face the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, who presents himself for a re -election on an independent ticket and has lagged behind the state representative, Cuomo and the Democratic candidate Brad Lander vote. Adams was elected As a Democrat in 2022 but lost support Among some in his party after criticizing the management of former president Joe Biden of illegal immigration.
The two main candidates represent different generations in competition for power among democrats.
Mamdani was born in Uganda but grew up in New York as the son of a “anti-colonialism“” learned at Columbia University. The candidate focuses on the creation of many “free” programs in New Yorkers, as a minimum wage of $ 30, disdaining the role of local police And striking The Israeli Prime Minister if he enters the city.
Cuomo was born in Queens, support Israel, wishes to develop police forces and is more than twice Mamdani age. Its economic solutions include fiscal reductions and the increase in “affordable housing”, among other more moderate ideas.
While Mamdani's campaign has raised More than $ 8 million in private contributions and public counterparts, nor Cuomo or Adams received public funding Due to the procedural obstacles of the state. Cuomo's campaign would have qualify For public counterpart funds before May 12 if it corrects a paperwork error, while Adams was refused corresponding funds due to suspicion resulting from the federal corruption of the Biden era costs against him who was abandoned by the Trump administration.
“The Democratic Party at the moment is still somehow a civil war, and I think that momentum and money are on the side of the most progressive [candidates]”Said Talgo.
Beyond enduring Mamdani, the DSA also has fundraising For his campaign and conduit Awareness of voters before the elections. A chief of the DSA of New York said in February that the group hoped “to transcend the right quarter that we saw among the New Yorkers” after several counties tilted towards President Donald Trump in 2024 by simple and two -digit margins.
The national and New York chapters of the DSA did not respond to several requests for comments.
A Mamdani victory counter the losses suffered by DSA during Biden's mandate, which included decreases of membership members and campaign victories linked to financial struggles and internal disputes.
The DSA approved fewer candidates and voting initiatives in 2024 than during the year since 2019, data from the group website shows. Voting initiatives have discussed workers' rights, abortion, the alleged excess of the police and other issues.
However, only 45% of 2024 campaigns won, a decrease of more than 50% between 2020 and 2023, according to the DCNF analysis of data. The analysis excluded the DSA campaigns promoting a “uncommon” vote as well as two elections that led to streams.
The number of members of the DSA in order sharp in April 2021 to approximately 79,000 Before slipping over 9,500 in the Biden years, according to data poster Online by DSA affiliates. Last December, the number was 69,155 but has since increased by more than 7,000 since January. Some members of members seemed to correspond to the anti-political demonstrations Black Lives Matter which broke out in the summer of 2020, Trump's first mandate and the decision of the Supreme Court in 2022 to overthrow the precedent of the national abortion roe v. Wade.
With the gradual decline in membership came a lack of contribution payments, resulting in financial problems and occasional reports of intestine struggles.
DSA leaders have succeeded in resolution In early 2024 To dismiss 12 full -time employees to account for a planned budget deficit of more than $ 1.2 million. A burst of debate About the future of the DSA has followed since the start of its “fiscal crisis», With members accusing online of malfort organization – or advertisement The DSA non -profit fund collection arm is too “conservative” for their movement. Some members have written that the leaders have ignored the signs of the budgetary gaps from the start and that “little was done to prevent” the financial deficit until it becomes serious.
Anti-Semitism and the War of Israel-Hamas were another line of demarcation between different groups of democrats. Mamdani and DSA have in particular criticize For their anti-Israeli positions, with premises activists accusing Mamdani of curbing the favor of anti -Semites.
Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York also criticized the DSA in 2023 for organizing demonstrations in support of the Palestinians shortly after the terrorist attacks on October 7 of Hamas. The DSA put pressure on affirmations and temporarily declining has approve for re -election. DSA chapter in New York City propose A measure to censor Ocasio-Cortez for the reception of a panel on anti-Semitism but finally rejected it.
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Be that as it may, Talgo told the DCNF that the framing of economic problems by Mamdani as a war on the middle class could call on many New Yorkers in the grip Costs of life. Housing costs, for example, increased more quickly than income throughout the city from 2019 to 2023, according to the Fiscal Policy Institute.
“Although I am completely disagreeing with DSA policies, I will give them at least one credit they respond to some of these fundamental concerns,” said Talgo. He said years of democrats of the populist rejection establishment presidential candidates, as Supported by the DSA Vermont Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders can come back to bite them.
“When you look, like, [Ocasio-Cortez] And Bernie goes to their anti-ligarque tour, they are the ones who attract the big crowd, “said Talgo.
Talgo said that Mamdani's victory on Cuomo could also be blamed being a “very erroneous candidate” because of his story of scandals and allegations of sexual harassment, which caused his resignation. Such a victory would still enhond the same left factions whose radicalism was blamed for the re -election of Trump, analysts said in the DCNF.
“”[Mamdani’s] Victory would justify the DSA as the central force within the Democratic Party, “said Barron.” He will open the way to the appointment of AOC in 2028, formalizing his unofficial status as the first Democrat in the United States. »»
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