If you think of typical American activities, Apple Pie and Little League Baseball are fundamentally wrong that it takes hot after the closely viewed of political campaigns. A lot of ink has already been spilled for Tuesday’s democratic primary elections in the Big Apple’s Big Apple that saw the convincing victory of Zohran Mamdani over the former government Andrew Cuomo.
Op een gegeven moment tijdens de race genoot Cuomo een voorsprong van 30 punten in de peilingen, maar in de afgelopen maanden was Mamdani in staat om de kloof te dichten en uiteindelijk de voormalige gouverneur in te halen die grotendeels verschuldigd is aan een agressieve sociale media en veldinspanningen door populaire progressieve opvattingen en goedkeuring die congres Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Dn.y. and Sen. Bernie Sander, i-VT.
Mamdani won because he led a lively, fascinating campaign that spoke to the frustrations of so many New Yorkers when it came to the high costs of living. It did not hurt that the race also became a choice between a new newcomer and a scandal figure plagued by scandals that seemed to blame the idea of ​​campaigns.
Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks to supporters during an election night meeting on 24 June 2025, in the Queens Borough in New York City. (Getty Images/Michael M. Santiago)
Within a few minutes after the race was called, the leading conservatives Mamdani as the de-facto leader of the Democratic Party, explained practically drooling by the possibility of binding National Democrats to the 33-year-old Democratic Socialist. Democrats should not take the bait.
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I would rather claim that the two de-facto leaders of my party in 2025 are two pragmatic, center-left women from the congress who happen to be the nominees for Governor in New Jersey and Virginia.
On 10 June, congress member Mikie Sherrill, DN.J., decisively won her Primary in the Garden State with 15 points, beating five other well -known and well -funded candidates. Only a week later, former congress member Abigail Spanberger, D-VA., After having done all the hard work of cleaning up the field, made it officially made by achieving the score in the primary elections of Virginia.
Both women were chosen in the congress in 2018 and turning competitive GOP districts. In the case of Sherrill, she replaced a Republican who had been there for almost 25 years, won and kept one of the most difficult districts in the state by leaning in her experience as a bridge building, no-nonsense American navy helicopter pilot and former federal public prosecutor.
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Spanberger is cut from the same cloth, after he has previously served as CIA officer and the fight against terrorism, re-elected in the same congress district that in 2021 virginia’s Republican government Glenn Youngkin and before that President Trump.
Sherrill and Spanberger are not social media stars. They do not lean in performance politics and they are not interested in the wishes of controversy. Just like their career in national security before the government, they do the actual work of listening, coalition construction and legislation.
Democrat Abigail Spanberger, right, runs against Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, a Republican, in the state of the State this year. (Getty)
Ideology tests can win in deep blue districts, but both women understand that conviction – not purity – is what general elections win and build up sustainable democratic majorities in the coming years.
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To be clear, this is not about silence progressive voices. Believe me, I want a tent that is as large as possible and party activists who push the envelope and play the consciousness of injustice in our society and the government an important role. But activism alone is not the same as rule, and the approval of legislation is not achieved by catchy slogans or tickmemes, but rather by the hard work of consensus building.
During the Primary in VirginiaSpanberger pushed the Commonwealth that it was about the economy of the kitchen table, to support the federal workforce and public safety. Sherrill also concentrated relentlessly on affordability, infrastructure and defending individual liberties without entering the garden state in ideological dogma.
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It is also important to point out that both women have won without compromising in the core democratic values. Both are pro-democracy, pro-choice and pro-growth candidates who are well-founded and mission-driven.
Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger show Democrats ahead and will win in November. We have to follow their leadership.
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