{"id":274703,"date":"2026-06-23T01:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274703\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T01:02:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:02:29","slug":"analyzing-congressional-races-in-nyc-ahead-of-june-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/274703\/","title":{"rendered":"Analyzing congressional races in NYC ahead of June primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday is the June primary election across New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Morris Katz, who served as a campaign strategist for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on \u201cInside City Hall\u201d Monday to talk about this year\u2019s primary season and what it means for the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s also spent time advising other candidates in the city, including Brad Lander, Micah Lasher and Claire Valdez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that tomorrow is a referendum on the future of the Democratic Party, and it\u2019s a referendum on what kind of politics people want to see in this city,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople wanted ambition. People wanted change. People wanted a new generation of leaders. That\u2019s on the ballot again,\u201d Katz continued. \u201cAnd I think people are still hungry for those things, and are ready to take a chance on a government they can believe in again.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday is the June primary election across New York City. Morris Katz, who served as a campaign strategist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[378,25,377,379,9,24,12,63,380,134,136,135,27,200],"class_list":["post-274703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-app-inside-city-hall","tag-app-top-stories","tag-inside-city-hall-segments","tag-inside-city-hall-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}