We are,
of course, focused on
primaries in Wisconsin,
but we are looking for clues this week
from primaries
that happened in New York.
So, Anya, what did happen there?
Yeah, there were a number of
congressional primaries,
including three candidates
who received the backing
of mayors around.
Mamdani himself a socialist.
Two of those candidates
also received
endorsements from the Democratic
Socialists of America, which is a group
that he's also affiliated with.
And so a lot of people, as you say,
are kind of looking at that as
as a tea leaves for what that says
about the
Democratic primary right now
and what voters want
in their blue candidate.
Why are we asking it here, though,
or what's
kind of our thread where it feels like,
hey, this could really
be significant this year?
Obviously,
there are many differences
between New York City
and the state of Wisconsin,
but one of the things
that there is kind of in commonality here
is that we have this
crowded Democratic race for governor,
as we've mentioned, and one candidate
from there, Francesca Hong, is sort of
in that same vein as Mamdani.
And these kind of
she identifies
as a socialist, as a democratic socialist.
She's part of that caucus
in the legislature.
The thing that's missing
in Wisconsin is, is
you don't have a massively
powerful endorsement, it seems, as they did
in New York from Mayor Mamdani
who came in and said,
this is what it means
to be a Democrat right now.
Democrats don't quite
have that for many reasons,
including that
they don't hold these
majorities in Washington.
They don't hold the White House.
But I think also,
this really is
a little bit
of like
a existentially
exploratory time for Democrats.