As Primary Season Wraps Up, Left-Wing and Establishment Candidates Vie for Control of the Democratic Party
Crowley won after Hong’s progressive campaign faced electability concerns and resurfaced past comments, while Democrats weigh a broader generational shift.
- Former mayor Luke Bronin defeated 14-term Connecticut Rep. John Larson in Tuesday's primary. "If leaders in our party don't recognize that we need to make changes, then the changes are going to come from the ground up," Bronin said in his victory speech.
- Larson became the seventh Democratic House incumbent to lose a primary this year, reflecting a generational turnover trend. This shift gained urgency following 2024 election losses, forcing the Democratic Party into a reckoning over long-serving leadership.
- While Democratic socialist Francesca Hong narrowly lost to Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, progressive Abdul El-Sayed won significant support in Michigan. Software engineer Cody Chandler voted for Hong, calling her "probably the most exciting candidate I've seen."
- For voters like Sarah Atkins Hoggatt, progressive policies clash with electability concerns against Republican Tom Tiffany. "I voted for someone who I think has a better chance," Atkins Hoggatt said, noting she "didn't vote my heart."
- Democrats now face a test of harnessing internal frustration against Republicans in November. Beyond that, a new generation of leaders will compete to shape a changing Democratic Party ahead of the 2028 presidential race.
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Daniel Allott: Democrats keep nominating candidates most Americans don't want
Democratic socialist Francesca Hong lost the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary Tuesday to establishment-backed Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, defying months of polling showing her comfortably ahead.
POLITICS: Francesca Hong’s collapse offers hope for establishment Dems — but the radical left is still working hard to infiltrate
Late Tuesday night, establishment Democrats finally exhaled after holding their collective breath as the polls proved to have badly overestimated the far-left’s appeal in the Wisconsin governor’s primary. Thanksgiving-hating socialist Francesca Hong narrowly lost to David Crowley, showing the limits of the radical left’s appeal in a Midwest swing state, as long as the normal Democrat has a modicum of charisma and organizational support. Regular …
Longtime MSNBC Star Flips, Scorches Dems For Party's Hard-Left Lurch
Chris Matthews says Democrats had better put some daylight between themselves and the socialist left before Republicans make the entire party answer for its agenda. The lifelong Democrat sounded the alarm Wednesday on “Morning Joe,” arguing that mainstream candidates must forcefully reject the Democratic Socialists of America and the “crap” coming from the party’s progressive wing. “I like AOC generally, but she came out and said, we’re just a b…
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After Tuesday’s primary results, officeholders and pundits from the Democratic Party establishment went on a full-on offensive against the insurgent Democratic Socialists of America. Irony abounded as allegations that voter fraud and funny business with failing “zip drives” were used to allegedly keep socialist internet-star state Rep. Francesca Hong from winning the gubernatorial primary in...
NewsBusters Podcast: The Left's Kooky Fringe Is Just 'Progressives'
Screenshot/Fox News The broadcast networks are allergic to finding a "far left" within the Democrat Party, so every far-left candidate is hailed as a "progressive" (or a "populist"), or even "capitalist." The label is "moderate" if you oppose the socialist in a primary. If you like Thanksgiving and deplore 9/11? "Moderate." MRC Director of Media Analysis Geoff Dickens and NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro joined the show to discuss our…
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