The primaries in New York and Colorado, where three House incumbents were unseated and other more establishment and center-left candidates were defeated, suggested that Democratic voters were moving both ideologically leftward and away from heeding the guidance of party leaders. In those states and others, candidates backed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and the Democratic Socialists of America were winning and beating opponents supported by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and others from the party’s center-left wing.
Hong’s defeat was almost a mirror image of El-Sayed’s victory a week earlier. Pre-primary polls, as with El-Sayed, suggested Hong had a comfortable double-digit lead. But instead, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley and Hong ended up effectively tied, as Representative Haley Stevens and El-Sayed were last week. (El-Sayed won by about 1 percent; Crowley by even less.) Like El-Sayed, Hong won in areas near the state’s colleges but trailed her more centrist opponent in small counties and the state’s heavily Black urban county (Wayne County in Michigan, Milwaukee County in Wisconsin.) While it’s too early to have such full analysis of the results in Wisconsin, I assume that Hong, like El-Sayed, Zohran Mamdani, and other progressives, defeated her more centrist opponent among younger and college-educated voters but trailed with African Americans, non-college voters, and those over age 50.
There was some good news for progressives on Tuesday in the Midwest. Peggy Flanagan, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota who was backed by Warren and other prominent progressives, easily defeated Representative Angie Craig in a Senate primary. Craig, like Representative Stevens of Michigan, was the darling of the center-left both in her state and nationally. Tim Walz’s wife Gwen endorsed Craig, as did Pete Buttigieg.
So if Flaganan wins in November, she’ll likely be a champion for progressive causes. But she won’t be the champion for progressive electability that many on the left desperately want, because she wouldn’t have carried a swing state.
Tuesday’s outcome, though, may be good for both wings of the party. Progressives get to test their electoral theories with the better candidate (El-Sayed instead of Hong). Centrists don’t have to root for a leftist that they dislike in a second key swing state. The battle for the soul of the Democratic Party will continue into the 2028 presidential primary. And that’s where it should be decided anyway.
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