The piece below says outside NYC….
Butb that is NOT correct….
Mamadani will NOT carry Staten Island and the outer boro’s of New York City as much and the suburbs ….
Mamdani does not work for most Democrats even if the media makes him the flavor of the month….
Mr. Mamdani’s rise in New York has drawn national attention, as well as the envy and curiosity of Democratic leaders still in search of a resonant message to recapture voters and control of Washington. But their hesitance to fully embrace him — and the Republicans’ eagerness to use him as a poster boy for the Democratic Party’s far-left excesses — is playing out just a few miles away from the New York City border.
“My mailbox is practically tilting over with the volume of anti-Mamdani mail,” said Steve Israel, a former congressman from Long Island who chaired the Democrats’ congressional campaign arm for four years. “And I don’t get to vote against Mamdani. The Republicans believe they’ve latched on to something.”
The strategy is not new. New York City suburbs played a decisive role in the outcome of the midterm elections in 2022, as Republican candidates’ messaging about crime and immigration helped them flip several safely blue congressional seats.
The region is again poised to hold outsize importance in 2026. Democrats are staring down a difficult political map, amid ongoing struggles to articulate an effective message that will galvanize the base while attracting voters who abandoned the party in 2024.
In New York City, Mr. Mamdani has used a grass-roots campaign strategy and an unrelenting focus on affordability to expand the city’s electorate and energize a new generation of voters. But his association with the Democratic Socialists of America and some of his policy proposals have led some Democrats to argue that his political brand is too far to the left to have political salience anywhere outside deep-blue New York City.
The divide, unfolding against the backdrop of the nation’s largest media market, further underlines the fault lines that have emerged among Democrats nationally as they seek to chart a path out of the political wilderness.
Representatives Tom Suozzi and Laura Gillen, two Democrats whose Long Island districts are among their party’s most vulnerable, have chosen to distance themselves from Mr. Mamdani. Jay Jacobs, the state Democratic Party chairman who also chairs the Nassau County chapter, said in a statement that he would not support Mr. Mamdani, citing disagreements with the state assemblyman over his views on Israel and his embrace of the Democratic Socialists of America’s platform.
Further south, in New Jersey, the state’s Republican candidate for governor, Jack Ciattarelli, has also tried to tie his Democratic opponent, Mikie Sherrill, to Mr. Mamdani, using the mention of the democratic socialist as an applause line at events. Ms. Sherrill has largely demurred when asked about her support for Mr. Mamdani, saying only that she is focused on her own race….
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But the most powerful New York Democrats in Congress, including Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, and Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, have not publicly supported him. In an interview with “The View” on Wednesday, Mr. Mamdani shrugged off the lack of support from his party’s leaders, arguing that his campaign’s overwhelming support from new and younger voters outweighed the need for endorsements from establishment figures….