After Zohran Mamdani\u2019s upset, a new wave of challengers targets incumbents, driven by fury at Donald Trump<\/p>\n
They are impatient, unafraid and hungry for change. Inspired by Zohran Mamdani\u2019s<\/a> shock victory in last year\u2019s New York mayoral race, a wave of insurgents is mounting primary challenges against Democratic incumbents ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n The emboldened lineup of primary challengers \u2013 often, but not always, from the party\u2019s progressive wing \u2013 has been fuelled by anger over the party\u2019s tepid response<\/a> to Donald Trump\u2019s authoritarianism, complicity in the war in Gaza and a crushing affordability crisis.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After Zohran Mamdani\u2019s upset, a new wave of challengers targets incumbents, driven by fury at Donald Trump They are impatient, unafraid and hungry for change. Inspired by Zohran Mamdani\u2019s shock victory in last year\u2019s New York mayoral race, a wave of insurgents is mounting primary challenges against Democratic incumbents ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections. The … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}