Winners and losers emerge after socialist earthquake rocks NYC primaries

By Fox News · Fox News

NEW YORK CITY - New York City’s primary night produced clear political winners and losers as Mayor Zohran Mamdani ’s slate of socialist candidates swept establishment-backed Democrats. Mamdani, sworn into office in January of this year, flexed his political might in the city after three congressional candidates that he endorsed in the primary, Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, Darializa Avila Chevalier, were all victorious on Tuesday night, and are expected to cruise to victory against their Republican opponents in November. All three candidates ran on platforms broadly aligned with Mamdani’s socialist economic agenda, anti-Israel posture and opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, while facing candidates backed by the establishment wing of the party. FAR-LEFT SURGE: MAMDANI-BACKED CANDIDATES OUST DEM ESTABLISHMENT INCUMBENTS "I think it was an incredible night," Mamdani said about the results before pointing to his own primary victory that shook the political landscape last June. "It is an incredible night and I think New Yorkers have shown that last June was not the end, it was the beginning." Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y. , the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus who has served in the House of Representatives since 2017, was defeated by Mamdani-backed socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier on Tuesday night in the Democratic primary for New York’s 13th Congressional District. Avila Chevalier, who has called America a " f------ disgrace ", supported the abolition of prisons and borders , and said Israel "doesn’t exist," was victorious despite a variety of controversies, most recently after claiming that criminal illegal immigrants should not be deported regardless of their crime. Another established Democrat in Congress, Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y. , was handily defeated by Mamdani-backed Lander after having served in Congress since 2022. Goldman, one of the most recognizable anti-Trump Democrats in Congress, and who was once viewed as a rising s…