{"id":276353,"date":"2026-06-24T07:56:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276353\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:56:41","slug":"mamdani-endorsements-sweep-new-york-primaries-in-blow-to-establishment-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/276353\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Endorsements Sweep New York Primaries in Blow to Establishment Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Espaillat, also the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, had the backing of top Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. The 71-year-old was the first Dominican-American to be elected to Congress and his campaign emphasized his advocacy against President Donald Trump\u2019s anti-immigration agenda.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cTonight wasn\u2019t our night, but I love you anyway,\u201d Espaillat said in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/video\/rep-adriano-espaillat-concedes-in-ny-13-democratic-primary\/\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">concession speech<\/a> to supporters. Espaillat, who immigrated to the U.S. from the Dominican Republic in 1964, said it was the \u201cprivilege of my life to serve you, the community, and I will continue to love and serve this community the best way that I can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">When asked if he had a message for Mamdani, whom Espaillat had endorsed in the mayoral election, he said, \u201cI respect the mayor\u2019s decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Speaking to Avila Chevalier\u2019s supporters after her victory, Mamdani said, \u201cI was asked time and again, why would I support this campaign? And I said then, I can think of no better person than the daughter of a single mother caseworker who has fought for working people her entire life, who has stood up for New Yorkers unjustly detained by I.C.E., who has called for a foreign policy of investing in babies and not bombs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Espaillat, also the chairman of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, had the backing of top Democrats, including House Minority&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2132,9,11,10,5296,18208],"class_list":["post-276353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-democrats","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news-desk","tag-overnight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276353","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=276353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}