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\n Top Democrats insist that they\u2019re unfazed by the party\u2019s forming a \u201cZohran Mamdani wing,\u201d after the New York City mayor\u2019s stunningly successful primary night.\n <\/p>

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\n But there is growing angst among many sitting congressional Democrats after Mamdani allies won three primaries, including defeats of incumbent Reps. Adriano Espaillat and Dan Goldman. And, most immediately, they worry it will make it tougher to flip the House this year, with Republicans eager to tee up the Mamdani slate\u2019s most controversial positions for attack ads in battlegrounds across the country.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cObviously, the socialists had a big win last night. The question is, are we going to let them take over the party? Or are we going to stand up and fight back?\u201d said Rep. Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, a moderate Democrat who has criticized Mamdani\u2019s politics and how he\u2019s addressed allies of Israel. \u201cMany of us believe, as I do, that if you\u2019re a socialist, you\u2019re not a Democrat.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Gottheimer and others worry that Republicans will try to yoke their most vulnerable members to what they see as far-left ultra-progressives \u2014 and they worry that it will only highlight Democratic divisions in a must-win election year.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIf you ask me, it was not a good night for New York,\u201d Rep. Greg Meeks, a powerful New York Democrat who is close with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, told CNN when asked about deleted posts from Darializa Avila Chevalier, who defeated Espaillat, expressing support for abolishing police, prisons and borders.\n <\/p>\n

\n Asked about the fraught relationship between the Democratic Socialists of America and the Democratic Party, Meeks added: \u201cInstead of us making sure we put all of our resources to fight Republicans and to fight Donald Trump, we\u2019re using it to fight each other. It just doesn\u2019t make common sense to me.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n One Democratic lawmaker sitting in a battleground district told CNN that they are so concerned about the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America that they have recently begun having serious conversations with donors about leaving the party altogether.\n <\/p>\n

\n If Democrats do flip the House, the number of democratic socialists in their ranks is still likely to be a small minority of the caucus. And Democrats remain confident they can still win the House in November.\n <\/p>\n

\n The House Democratic caucus gathered for a private briefing by their party arm on Wednesday morning, where party leaders presented internal polling showing Trump underwater in key battlegrounds, according to two people familiar with the briefing. No one brought up the Mamdani-backed candidate wins.\n <\/p>\n

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\n The Mamdani-backed candidates who won on Tuesday ran on the same affordability message that the party has embraced nationally, but their victories highlight broader friction over Democrats\u2019 status-quo tactics in Washington \u2014 as well as deep divides on Israel.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cOur party nationally will need to reckon with this fact given that what you witnessed yesterday was not an anti-affordability or anti-economic policy strategy that won; it was an anti-establishment strategy beyond messaging that trumped,\u201d a senior House Democratic aide told CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n Speaking Wednesday morning in New York City, Mamdani made the opposite argument, though he also connected cost-of-living issues to his longstanding critiques of US military support for Israel, a key issue in all three primaries.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhat we saw last night was a hunger for leaders who will be there on the front lines looking to make it easier for working people to afford life in the greatest city in the world,\u201d he said.\n <\/p>\n

\n House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Wednesday downplayed fears within his party that the wins could reverberate in battleground districts this November.\n <\/p>

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\n \u201cNo, Donald Trump has a working relationship with the mayor of the city of New York, and he\u2019s made that publicly and explicitly clear to America, not once but twice in the Oval Office,\u201d Jeffries said.\n <\/p>\n

\n Jeffries was asked by reporters if Mamdani had made enemies on Capitol Hill.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cListen, the mayor and I agreed to strongly disagree about some of his endorsements, and he\u2019s got work to do in terms of the conversations that he\u2019s going to have with members of Congress moving forward,\u201d Jeffries, who backed Espaillat and Goldman, told reporters.\n <\/p>\n

\n Asked if Democratic voters want their members in Congress to be more progressive, Jeffries responded: \u201cI think we\u2019ve got to look at the totality of all 215 members of the House Democratic caucus, and that answer speaks for itself.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n The Brooklyn representative told reporters his relationship with Madmani is \u201ca very good one\u201d and that the pair speak regularly.\n <\/p>\n

\n Morris Katz, a campaign strategist who is a key Mamdani ally, argued that Democrats can have a \u201cbig-tent populist party\u201d that focuses on affordability and \u201cinvests in domestic priorities, in schools and in hospitals rather than in wars abroad.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think that we spend a lot more time talking about labels than the average swing voter thinks about that,\u201d Katz told CNN\u2019s Dana Bash. \u201cYou see people interact with policies, campaigns, and ideas not predicated on the label they\u2019re applying to themselves, but how are they going to make their lives better?\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n And on Capitol Hill, progressives like Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna celebrated Tuesday night\u2019s results.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt\u2019s a big win for the progressive wing of the party. We are a new party that will call out the genocide, tax the billionaires, and stand up for single payer healthcare\u201d Khanna told CNN. \u201cOur party wants a new generation leaders willing to challenge the status quo and call out the establishment.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n But one longtime Democrat, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, firmly disagrees that the results reflect the mood of the country.\n <\/p>\n

\n Instead, he said it\u2019s a small minority of Democrats who have run extremely effective campaigns.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think we have a lot of more organizing to do on the ground, especially in places like New York and California, places where DSA is is is being more influential, and we need to educate young people, we need to get more people, young people involved on more moderate policies, just the way the other side has, and run strong campaigns,\u201d Gonzalez said.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI don\u2019t think it should be a concern for people in South Texas, but I think nationally it\u2019s a huge concern, and how they push the policies within the Democratic caucus that we\u2019re going to have to defend,\u201d Gonzalez added. \u201cA lot of these policies that obviously I don\u2019t agree with, and would be very difficult for me to sell to people in South Texas, and I don\u2019t intend to sell them, because I don\u2019t believe in most of them myself.\n <\/p>\n

\n As for his own reelection, Gonzalez was confident he could still win despite any GOP attacks linking him to the DSA: \u201cI\u2019ve been around long enough that people don\u2019t see me as a socialist. In fact, I get beat up by socialists.\u201d\n <\/p>

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