Posted on 06/26/2026 5:39:11 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — Democratic congressional leaders downplayed wins for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s handpicked challengers in primary races Tuesday, as moderates clamored for results to be a wake-up call for the party establishment.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed the elections showed “a great united party,” and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) touted his “great working relationship” with Mamdani, while stressing there was still some “work to do” in easing tensions with congressional Democrats.
“We’re seeing tremendous energy from all different areas of our party. You’re seeing centrist energy in Virginia, Iowa, and NJ. Progressive energy in NYC,” Schumer told The Post. “We’re going to harness it all to win in November. Because all Democrats are united in the mission to take back the Senate and defeat Trump.”
But moderate Democratic lawmakers and sources sounded the alarm Wednesday that the Big Apple’s takeover by Mamdani’s socialist allies in deep-blue district races spelled trouble for their party — especially in its antagonism toward Israel — as well as Schumer and Jeffries’ leadership positions.
“They will continue to intensify their anti-Israel rhetoric and votes,” said Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), the most pro-Israel Democrat in the upper chamber. “The Democratic Party essentially has become the anti-Israel party.”
“AOC is now a moderate compared to these wackjobs. The lunatics have taken over the asylum,” one staffer erupted. “Us normie Democrats need to stop being such f------ pussies. This is the Reichstag moment.”
It was another wake-up call for Schumer after his recruit for Maine Senate, moderate Gov. Janet Mills, fizzled out against Bernie Sanders-endorsed Graham Platner in a Senate Democratic primary earlier this month.
“Anyone who smells like the old guard, who told us Joe Biden was fine, is vulnerable, Schumer included,” said another Democratic campaign operative...
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Bet Chuckie turns Kapo.
This isn’t leadership. It’s pathetic gaslighting. They are treating their own voters like juveniles and imbeciles who can’t see what is staring them in the face: the Democratic Party is being colonized by the furthest fringes, and the supposed adults in the room are either too weak or too cynical to stop it.
The midterms are not going to be a referendum on Trump alone — they are going to be a referendum on whether the Democratic Party still has any interest in representing normal people or whether it has fully surrendered to the ideologues who think “from the river to the sea” is acceptable dinner-table talk.
If they think the city looked bad in the 70s, they ain’t seen nuthin’ yet. All that will remain are the homeless because they have no means to “Escape From New York.”
Pelosi and Schumer embraced AOC and the squad when they should have squashed them like bugs.
They are paying for that now. Thank goodness!!!
They’re whistling past the graveyard.
Madmani has nothing to do with it. It is Soros and Communist Red China, the Neville guy.
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