{"id":277021,"date":"2026-06-24T19:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277021\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:43:17","slug":"leftist-nyc-primary-wins-portend-raucous-caucus-for-jeffries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/277021\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist NYC Primary Wins Portend Raucous Caucus for Jeffries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defeat of two New York incumbents backed by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in primary fights sent warning signals to Democratic leaders ahead of November.<\/p>\n<p>The Tuesday night wins intensify questions about how the Democratic establishment \u2014 led by Jeffries \u2014 responds to the rise of a more emboldened socialist faction in New York City championed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani. <\/p>\n<p>Two democratic socialists Mamdani endorsed declared victory over incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat, a close Jeffries ally, and in the seat vacated by Rep. Nydia Velazquez. His third endorsed congressional candidate, Brad Lander, isn\u2019t a democratic socialist but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defeat of two New York incumbents backed by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in primary fights sent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31921,8967,9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-277021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-defense-spending","tag-election-campaigns","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277021","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=277021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}