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Tuesday’s election capped off a chaotic Democratic primary race in which Crowley briefly suspended his campaign, expressing doubts he could win. He later re-entered the race after the candidate he endorsed, Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, dropped out, while former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes also ended his campaign in July. Hong was the latest controversial progressive candidate to divide Democrats—she was criticized recently for an unearthed and since-deleted social media call to “cancelThanksgiving” in 2020, comments she reversed, and some prominent progressives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., have withheld their endorsements of Hong.
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Some Democrats expressed concerns that Hong could lose to Tiffany in the general election. Polling on a potential matchup is limited, but a State Navigate found her losing support to Tiffany among Democratic primary voters in November, while a Marquette Law School poll also found Barnes was the only primary candidate with an advantage over Tiffany.
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Progressives have beat establishment-backed candidates, including some incumbents, in several races this primary season. Michigan state Rep. Abdul El-Sayed beat Rep. Haley Stevens in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary, and democratic socialist state Rep. Donavan McKinney unseated Rep. Shri Thanedar, D-Mich., in last week’s primaries. In New York, several congressional candidates backed by socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani ousted incumbents in June, including Brad Lander, who defeated two-term incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman, and Ávila Chevalier, who beat five-term incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat. In Colorado, socialist Melat Kiros defeated 15-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette in July.
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