Mamdani-backed candidates win big in New York Democratic primaries – US politics live
Three congressional candidates endorsed by Mamdani win in clear sign of New York mayor’s growing influence Hello and welcome to our US politics liveblog. Three
Three congressional candidates endorsed by Mamdani win in clear sign of New York mayor’s growing influence Hello and welcome to our US politics liveblog. Three congressional candidates endorsed by Zohran Mamdani, New York’s democratic socialist mayor, won their closely watched primaries on Tuesday, beating out incumbents or incumbent-backed candidates supported by the Democratic establishment. In Maryland, Adrian Boafo won the extremely crowded primary race to succeed Steny Hoyer, the longest-serving House Democrat and a longtime member of leadership who is retiring at the end of his 23rd term.
Boafo, a state delegate, defeated the former US Capitol police officer Harry Dunn, who defended the building on January 6, and businesswoman Quincy Bareebe. April McClain Delaney fended off her predecessor, the former Democratic congressman David Trone, who sought to reclaim his seat in Maryland’s sixth district after an unsuccessful bid for Senate two years ago. Nancy Lacore, a three-star navy rear-admiral fired by Pete Hegseth last year in the defense secretary’s purge of senior US military officials, has won the Democratic nomination in a runoff for a closely watched congressional race in South Carolina.
South Carolina’s attorney general, Alan Wilson, won the Republican nomination for governor, defeating Trump-backed lieutenant governor Pamela Evette. In Utah, former congressman Ben McAdams, a political moderate, won the primary to compete in a newly drawn Democratic-friendly district in Salt Lake City. Donald Trump is slated to meet with the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, in the Oval office on Wednesday. Later Wednesday, Trump will also be hosting the opening of The Great American State Fair, an event held by the Freedom 250, an organization run by Trump supporters to mark the United States’ 250th anniversary and run counter to America250, the nonpartisan body set up by Congress a decade ago to oversee the commemoration.
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