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WASHINGTON \u2014 Democratic congressional leaders downplayed wins for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s handpicked challengers in primary races Tuesday, as moderates clamored for results to be a wake-up call for the party establishment.<\/p>\n

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) claimed the elections showed \u201ca great united party,\u201d and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) touted his \u201cgreat working relationship\u201d with Mamdani, while stressing there was still some \u201cwork to do\u201d in easing tensions with congressional Democrats.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re seeing tremendous energy from all different areas of our party. You\u2019re seeing centrist energy in Virginia, Iowa, and NJ. Progressive energy in NYC,\u201d Schumer told The Post. \u201cWe\u2019re going to harness it all to win in November. Because all Democrats are united in the mission to take back the Senate and defeat Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

But moderate Democratic lawmakers and sources sounded the alarm Wednesday that the Big Apple\u2019s takeover by Mamdani\u2019s socialist allies in deep-blue district races spelled trouble for their party \u2014 especially in its antagonism toward Israel \u2014 as well as Schumer and Jeffries\u2019 leadership positions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will continue to intensify their anti-Israel rhetoric and votes,\u201d said Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), the most pro-Israel Democrat in the upper chamber. \u201cThe Democratic Party essentially has become the anti-Israel party.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAOC is now a moderate compared to these wackjobs. The lunatics have taken over the asylum,\u201d one staffer erupted. \u201cUs normie Democrats need to stop being such f\u2013king pussies. This is the Reichstag moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was another wake-up call for Schumer after his recruit for Maine Senate, moderate Gov. Janet Mills, fizzled out against Bernie Sanders-endorsed Graham Platner in a Senate Democratic primary earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who smells like the old guard, who told us Joe Biden was fine, is vulnerable, Schumer included,\u201d said another Democratic campaign operative of the Senate minority leader\u2019s chances at re-election in 2028.<\/p>\n

A second New York Democratic campaign insider disputed this, saying that Schumer and Jeffries were both \u201csurvivors\u201d and \u201con their worst days \u2026 still formidable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey know how to work hard and they know how to fight for New York,\u201d this insider said. \u201cThat\u2019s hard to beat when the alternative is someone who might hate cops or property ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Valdez supporters still chanted \u201cyou\u2019re next\u201d\u00a0when the House Democratic leader appeared on TV screens during a watch party Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Mamdani backed former city comptroller Brad Lander and Democratic Socialists of America-endorsed candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier before their defeat of Reps. Dan Goldman (D-NY) and Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), respectively.<\/p>\n

Another Mamdani- and DSA-supported candidate, state Assemblywoman Claire Valdez, also won in a race to replace retiring Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) after having supported the city\u2019s seizure of properties from \u201cabsentee landlords.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Dem staffer said that the DSA wins didn\u2019t matter entirely for a statewide race like Schumer\u2019s, but that the minority leader faced \u201ca real tough road to run again and not many allies in that process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s little chance he ends up running,\u201d the staffer said. \u201cThe Democratic establishment in blue cities, which has historically been an ally to the Jewish community, is dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe DSA is the new establishment and hostility to the (((Zionists))) is perhaps their most important unifying principle.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a floor speech Wednesday, Schumer, the highest-ranking Jewish lawmaker in Congress, declined to comment on the results, attacking Republicans instead while highlighting the four-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned by President Trump\u2019s Supreme Court nominees.<\/p>\n

The Senate minority leader hadn\u2019t endorsed in any of the races, while Jeffries backed Goldman and Espaillat.<\/p>\n

Later, Schumer claimed the trouncing of incumbents demonstrated party unity and \u201centhusiasm in Democrats to beat Trump.\u201d Jeffries claimed he and Mamdani agreed to \u201cstrongly disagree\u201d on candidates and \u201cevery race is going to be judged on its own merits.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t a case of Jeffries-backed candidates losing. Jeffries is loyal to his members. [Rep. Grace] Meng won, [Rep. Ritchie] Torres won, Goldman lost. Espaillat lost,\u201d a Jeffries insider said. \u201cNot great but not dramatic and will not change the outcome in November when Democrats take the House.\u201d<\/p>\n

A self-described prison abolitionist, Chevalier declined to say whether she supported the incarceration of murderers in a widely discussed interview before the election.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have always focused my attention on how do we create systems where that\u2019s not even the possibility,\u201d she told the New York Editorial Board.<\/p>\n

Both she and Valdez campaigned on an\u00a0anti-Israel platform, demanding a full divestment from Israeli companies and the end of US arms sales to its democratic Middle Eastern ally.<\/p>\n

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has played coy about whether she is eyeing a primary fight against Schumer \u2014 or a possible 2028 presidential run \u2014 saying as recently as May this year that \u201cmy ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Schumer will complete his fifth term in the Senate in January 2029, having been the leader of his party in the upper chamber since 2017.<\/p>\n

While AOC endorsed Mamdani, Schumer declined to back the Democratic socialist in the New York City mayor\u2019s race last November, while pivoting to support his party\u2019s left-wing opposition to the Trump administration\u2019s immigration agenda by tanking funding bills for the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats need to build a broad coalition,\u201d a Dem strategist assessed, \u201cand Jewish voters were the most loyal group of voters in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFor every person we\u2019re attracting, we can\u2019t lose others,\u201d the strategist said, \u201cand there should be concern about the one-for-one tradeoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

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