Democrat strategists have revealed their latest plan to retake the White House: Project 2029.
Project 2029 aims to create a list of policies for the next Democrat presidential nominee, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/us/politics/democrats-project-2029.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S08.3w9n.qKQ9kNPgnL-o&amp;smid=url-share">reported</a>.
Andrei Cherny, a former Bill Clinton speechwriter and Arizona congressional candidate, is organizing the effort through Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a liberal thought magazine Cherny co-founded in 2006.
The name is a play on the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Project 2025, despite leftists making it the center of their attacks against President Donald Trump in 2024. Trump repeatedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-again-addresses-project-2025-says-dems-are-engaging-in-pure-disinformation">distanced</a> himself from the project, <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47">focusing</a> instead on Agenda 47.
But Cherny plans to use Project 2029 to &#8220;rally leading Democratic presidential candidates,&#8221; the Times said.
Cherny launched Project 2029 after the failed Kamala Harris campaign. He said Harris failed because she ran against Trump instead of for her own policies, the Times reported.
Cherny told the Times that Project 2029 will release over the next two years in quarterly installments and will eventually be made into a book, like Project 2025.
The advisory board for Project 2029 &#8220;includes Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser under former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.; Anne-Marie Slaughter, the former president of the New America Foundation; the economist Justin Wolfers; Felicia Wong, until recently the president of the progressive Roosevelt Institute; and Jim Kessler, a founder of the centrist group Third Way,&#8221; the Times said.
Cherny called the group &#8220;the Justice League&#8221; or &#8220;the Avengers of public policy,&#8221; the Times reported. The board will work through policy differences at public conferences.
The Times did not report the project&#8217;s planned policies, but a March 2025 Democracy article, <a href="https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/needed-a-peoples-project-2029/">titled</a> &#8220;Needed: A People&#8217;s Project 2029,&#8221; proposes increasing the minimum wage.
&#8220;Bold, popular solutions like a $25 minimum wage and ending the subminimum wage are just the beginning,&#8221; the article said.
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Project 2029 comes as Democrats are trying to course-correct after the 2024 election.
In November 2024, Democrat strategist Julian Epstein <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-strategist-the-left-has-a-wokeness-moral-condescension-problem">said</a> that the Democrats needed to recruit “better candidates and they need to move back to the center on economic and cultural policies.”
Epstein said the Democrats had become the &#8220;party of wokeness&#8221; and &#8220;moral condescension.&#8221;
&#8220;And what that has done is it has caused the Left to shut its ears and to stop listening to people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And it’s made it a lot dumber.&#8221;
In April 2025, CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said approval ratings of Democratic leaders have fallen dramatically since last year. In 2024, Democrats in Congress had an 80% approval rating. By that same time in 2025, the number had fallen to 39%, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/holy-toledo-the-bottom-has-dropped-out-for-democrat-leadership-cnn-pollster-says?author=Virginia+Kruta&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=%E2%80%98Holy+Toledo%E2%80%99%3A+The+Bottom+Has+Dropped+Out+For+Democrat+Leadership%2C+CNN+Pollster+Says">reported</a>.
&#8220;Democrats hate, hate, hate, hate what their congressional leaders in Washington are doing right now on the key issue of the day, the economy,&#8221; Enten said. &#8220;And their confidence has fallen through the floor.&#8221;

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Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who is the Democratic nominee in New York City’s mayoral race, wants to “shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.”
Mamdani, a far-left 33-year-old Muslim who became an American citizen in 2018, detailed his plan in a <a href="https://pdfhost.io/v/sTRKnd9Qtc_Homeowner_Policy_Memo">policy memo</a> that insists “the cityʼs property tax system favors wealthier homeowners in gentrifying neighborhoods.” According to the campaign document, Mamdani wants to lower the tax burden for homeowners in lower-income neighborhoods while &#8220;raising the amount paid in the most expensive Brooklyn brownstones.”
Mamdani&#8217;s proposal to target &#8220;whiter neighborhoods&#8221; is one of many radical policy objectives, along with city-owned grocery stores, defunding the police, and freezing rent. The leftist state assemblyman has drawn the ire of Republicans and moderates across the country.
Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) even called for Mamdani to be stripped of his American citizenship in a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, saying the Democratic socialist expressed support for foreign terror organizations, a reference to Mamdani&#8217;s self-professed &#8220;love&#8221; for a group of individuals convicted of funneling money to Hamas.
“Zohran ‘little muhammad’ Mamdani is an antisemitic, socialist, communist who will destroy the great City of New York,” Ogles said as he <a href="https://x.com/RepOgles/status/1938301392416084150">shared the letter</a> to Bondi on social media. “He needs to be DEPORTED. Which is why I am calling for him to be subject to denaturalization proceedings.”
New York billionaire Bill Ackman has already <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/billionaire-pledges-to-bankroll-any-nyc-mayoral-candidate-who-can-beat-zohran-mamdani?author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Billionaire+Pledges+To+Bankroll+Any+NYC+Mayoral+Candidate+Who+Can+Beat+Zohran+Mamdani">pledged</a> millions of dollars to the effort to stop Mamdani from being elected. “There are hundreds of millions of dollars of capital available to back a competitor to Mamdani that can be put together overnight,” the Pershing Square Capital founder and CEO said.
Mamdani came out ahead of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in an upset victory in the Democratic primary and is now set to face off against incumbent Democratic Mayor Eric Adams, who is running as an independent in November&#8217;s general election.

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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman vowed on Wednesday to provide &#8220;hundreds of millions of dollars&#8221; to back any viable challenger against Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York City&#8217;s mayoral race.
Mamdani <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/andrew-cuomo-falls-to-radical-socialist-zohran-mamdani-in-nyc-mayoral-primary?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Tim+Rice&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Andrew+Cuomo+Falls+To+Radical+Socialist+Zohran+Mamdani+In+NYC+Mayoral+Primary">defeated</a> former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City&#8217;s Democratic primary on Tuesday and will compete against incumbent Mayor Eric Adams (running as an independent this cycle) and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa in the November general election.
Ackman, founder and chief executive of hedge fund manager Pershing Square Capital, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/billionaire-bill-ackman-promises-millions-to-anyone-willing-to-challenge-mamdani-for-nyc-mayor/">wrote</a> a lengthy post on X to express his alarm at Mamdani’s victory.
&#8220;I awoke this morning gravely concerned about New York City,&#8221; Ackman wrote. &#8220;I thought &#8216;What has NYC become that an avowed socialist who has supported defunding the police, whose solution to lowering food prices is city-owned supermarkets, who doesn&#8217;t understand that freezing rents will only make apartments scarcer and more expensive in the long run.'&#8221;
The billionaire investor compared a potential Mamdani-led New York to &#8220;another failed major city run by Democrats alongside Seattle, Chicago, LA, and SF,&#8221; quoting Senator John Fetterman&#8217;s (D-PA) assessment that Mamdani&#8217;s victory represented &#8220;Christmas in July for the GOP.&#8221;
&#8220;A mayor who disrespects the NYPD and has called for their defunding will get less effective policing, and Bratton&#8217;s &#8216;broken window theory&#8217; will operate in reverse,&#8221; Ackman wrote, warning that New York City would become &#8220;much more dangerous and economically unviable&#8221; under Mamdani&#8217;s administration.
Ackman assured potential candidates that funding would be instantly available, stating, &#8220;there are hundreds of million of dollars of capital available to back a competitor to Mamdani that can be put together overnight,&#8221; and adding that he is &#8220;in the text strings and the WhatsApp groups&#8221; organizing the effort.
The financier noted that any challenger would likely need to run as a write-in candidate, but suggested this could become &#8220;an important call to action that brings people in throngs to the polls&#8221; rather than a disadvantage.
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— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1938094628034506984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2025</a></blockquote>
New York City, with a gross metropolitan <a href="https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/NGMP35620">product</a> of $2.3 trillion and a population exceeding 8 million residents, is America&#8217;s financial nerve center. Many on Wall Street reacted with dread following Mamdani’s primary win, and <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/23/us-news/nyc-biz-leaders-left-shaking-over-prospect-of-zohran-mamdani-mayoral-win-it-would-be-disastrous/">predicted</a> a mass exodus from the city if he is elected in November.
Mamdani, a state assemblyman representing parts of Queens, has championed policies that alarm fiscal conservatives and moderate Democrats alike. His <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-top-five-craziest-policy-proposals-from-nyc-mayor-candidates?author=Catherine+Maxwell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Here+Are+The+Top+Five+Craziest+Policy+Proposals+From+NYC+Mayor+Candidates">platform</a> includes advocating for city-owned supermarkets, rent freezing measures, and significant reallocations of police funding to social services.
Ackman expressed particular concern about Mamdani&#8217;s stance on Israel, noting that &#8220;a mayor who condones hate speech will incentivize more hate speech and violence,&#8221; adding that &#8220;words matter, and yes, they can inspire people to kill as we have recently tragically seen in our country and around the world.&#8221;
Mamdani has stated that he doesn’t believe Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state, refused to condemn calls to “globalize the intifada,” and recorded a <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/06/21/us-news/socialist-nyc-mayoral-candidate-zohran-mamdani-once-rapped-about-his-love-for-hamas-teror-funding-group-holy-land-five/">rap song</a> expressing “love” to convicted Hamas financiers. His October 7 statement notably focused on “ending the occupation” with little mention of Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians.
Ackman suggested that former Mayor Michael Bloomberg might play a significant role in any challenge to Mamdani, stating that he was &#8220;sure that Mike Bloomberg will share his how-to-win-the-mayoralty IP and deliver his entire election apparatus and system to the aspiring candidate.&#8221;
The investor called on his followers to &#8220;crowdsource&#8221; potential candidate names and conduct polling to identify the most viable challenger.

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Former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, 67,  and self-declared Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, 33, are facing off on Tuesday in the New York Democratic mayoral primary, with a final poll suggesting the Uganda-born lawmaker could topple the veteran politician through ranked-choice voting.
Steve Kornacki, a national political correspondent and election analyst for NBC News, <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/steve-kornacki-breaking-state-new-yorks-mayoral-race-primary-day-rcna214579">paints</a> a nuanced picture of Tuesday’s primary vote, emphasizing that only two major public polls have been conducted in the lead-up to the primary, each showing vastly different results.
The Emerson College/PIX11/The Hill <a href="https://emersoncollegepolling.com/new-york-city-mayoral-poll-june/">poll</a> shows Cuomo leading Mamdani by a slim 35% to 32% margin in first-choice votes, but after multiple rounds of ranked-choice tabulation, Mamdani overtakes the former governor to win 52% to 48%. There are 11 Democrats on the primary ballot.
A Marist University poll <a href="https://maristpoll.marist.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Marist-Poll_June-NYC-NOS-and-Tables_202506162130-2.pdf">conducted</a> a week prior has Cuomo leading 38% to 27% in the initial round and 55% to 45% after several rounds of ranked choice.
In ranked-choice voting, voters rank up to five candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives more than 50% of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated, and their votes are redistributed based on voters’ next choices until someone wins a majority.
The polls diverge in two major areas, Kornacki explains: performance among black voters and the distribution of City Comptroller Brad Lander’s votes after he is eliminated in the ranked choice tabulation.
The Marist poll showed Cuomo with a 52-point advantage among black voters in the final round, while the more recent Emerson survey indicates Mamdani has closed that gap significantly, winning 38% of black voters in the final tabulation.
Lander’s projected elimination had little impact on the final round of the Marist poll, as Cuomo’s lead diminished only slightly from 13 to 10 points. In contrast, Emerson’s final round shows Lander’s votes propelling Mamdani to a 4-point lead over Cuomo after trailing in the prior round.
Brad Lander, recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-democrat-nyc-mayoral-candidate-arrested-by-ice-at-immigration-court">arrested</a> at an immigration court protest, could emerge as the race&#8217;s kingmaker.
Lander and Mamdani formed a strategic alliance last week, with each candidate asking supporters to include the other in their ranked ballots while excluding Cuomo — a move that explains why Mamdani gains substantially if Lander is eliminated in the tabulation process.
Political analyst and statistician Nate Silver <a href="https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1937185148736618695">points out</a>, “[O]ne of the nuances of RCV (ranked-choice voting) is that negative campaigning can backfire just because it puts your name more in voters&#8217; minds and therefore they&#8217;ll list you *somewhere* on their ballot.”
&#8220;I&#8217;m hearing things I don&#8217;t like about this Zohran guy, I&#8217;d better make sure to list him below [preferred choices] on my ballot’ is a lot *better* for Zohran than if voters don&#8217;t list him at all. Cuomo may benefit from this effect too,” Silver <a href="https://x.com/NateSilver538/status/1937185150611357725">adds</a>.
Kornacki predicts the tallying will likely continue past Tuesday, and the primary result might not even indicate the next mayor of deep blue New York City.
But no matter who wins the Democratic primary, both Cuomo and Mamdani are expected to appear on the general election ballot. Cuomo has already created the &#8220;Fight and Deliver Party,&#8221; which will allow him to appear on the November ballot regardless of today&#8217;s outcome, while Mamdani is poised to be the candidate of the Working Families Party in the event of defeat.
Meanwhile, current Democratic Mayor Eric Adams is running as an independent in the general election, while Republicans are poised to nominate Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa. The potential addition of both Cuomo and Mamdani further crowds the field for the general election in November.
Mamdani, who currently represents parts of Queens in the state assembly, has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-top-five-craziest-policy-proposals-from-nyc-mayor-candidates?author=Catherine+Maxwell&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Here+Are+The+Top+Five+Craziest+Policy+Proposals+From+NYC+Mayor+Candidates">advocated</a> for defunding the police, rent control expansion, government-sponsored grocery stores, higher taxes, and $65 million in taxpayer-funded “gender-affirming” trans procedures for adults and children.
Betting markets have the race in a dead heat as of Tuesday morning, leaning slightly in favor of Mamdani after the new Emerson poll, which accurately predicted the <a href="https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/nyc-mayor-2021-adams-stays-ahead-but-rank-choice-voting-closes-gap-for-wiley-and-garcia">outcome</a> of the 2021 primary, showed Mamdani taking the lead.

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If you haven’t noticed, it’s still “Pride Month.” Sorry for reminding you. 
You know who will never forget about “Pride Month”? The Left, and the Democratic Party, which for some reason, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/06/13/nx-s1-5415878/democrats-young-men-trump">still believes</a> that it can reach American men while pushing the most ridiculous LGBT talking points out there. 
While many Americans have made their frustrations with wokeness heard loud and clear, the Left continues to push “Pride,” even in what should be the unifying pastime of baseball. Earlier this week, the New York Mets bizarrely showed the “Pride” flag on the Citi Field jumbotron while the “Star-Spangled Banner” was being sung, because nothing shows the beauty and power of America like the rainbow flag apparently.  
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WTF. The <a href="https://twitter.com/Mets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Mets</a> showed a pride flag during the national anthem. Absolutely sickening. <a href="https://t.co/9zhc7dUWDx">pic.twitter.com/9zhc7dUWDx</a>
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Later in the game, the Mets <a href="https://x.com/ThePatriotOasis/status/1934227418429923769">showed</a> two dudes smooching it up while holding a “Pride” flag. Would it surprise you that for the month of June, the Mets changed their logo on social media to “Pride” colors? Hey, at least for Mets fans, their team is still sitting at the top of the league in the <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/standings/_/group/overall">standings</a>. But there are few things that men hate more than their beloved sports being injected with leftist politics. 
The wokeness of the Left is a losing message with men, especially young men, who are turning to the Republican side at incredible rates. In 2024, men between the ages of 18 and 29 <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/06/13/nx-s1-5415878/democrats-young-men-trump">shifted</a> to the Right by 12 points. The problem has become so big for Democrats that they <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/03/democrats-young-men-study-00384370">set out</a> to “study young men and how Democrats can reach them.” Maybe just be normal?
Cygnal pollster Brent Buchanan told “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG6zVr4v-4U">Morning Wire</a>” this week that cultural issues are the main driver behind young men abandoning the Democratic Party. 
“Those cultural issues are essentially proxies for radicalism, and if you don’t see yourself as radical on those issues, then you don’t see yourself as a Democrat right now,” Buchanan said. 
The 2024 election showed us that millions of young men don’t want to sign onto the Left’s radical platform, and they’re tired of the culture constantly shoving crazy ideologies.
Men want a return to normalcy. They want politicians who don’t scream about radical ideas, they want sports that aren’t steeped in wokeness, and they want companies that don’t push “Pride Month.” 
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Days after being endorsed by fellow democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Zohran Mamdani is leading former Governor Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor for the first time, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
The <a href="https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000197-6195-da2a-a9bf-6fbd7abe0000">poll</a>, conducted by Public Policy Polling for Democrat Justin Brannan&#8217;s city comptroller campaign, showed Mamdani leading the primary 35% to Cuomo&#8217;s 31%, within a margin of error of 4.1 percentage points. The survey of 573 likely Democratic voters was conducted on June 6-7, one day after AOC endorsed Mamdani.
The results indicate that the primary has effectively narrowed to a two-person contest between Mamdani and Cuomo, with no other candidates breaking double digits, despite endorsements from a plethora of top New York Democratic officials.
Mamdani, 33, elected to the State Assembly in 2020, has positioned himself as a leftist alternative to Cuomo&#8217;s more moderate brand of Democratic politics, campaigning on free public bus fares, free child care, and city-run grocery stores. The self-described democratic socialist has yet to present any realistic plan to pay for these programs, which would <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/27/zohran-mamdani-policy-pitches-new-york-00369756">require</a> roughly $10 billion in funding for an already cash-strapped city.
Mamdani&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nycs-mayoral-race-takes-sharp-turn-putting-muslim-socialist-neck-and-neck-with-cuomo?author=Nathan+Gay&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=10&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=NYC%E2%80%99s+Mayoral+Race+Takes+Sharp+Turn%2C+Putting+Muslim+Socialist+Neck-And-Neck+With+Cuomo">rise</a> in the polls follows his effective use of social media to promote his platform and strategic partnerships with other far-Left Democrats. His campaign has capitalized on Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1930601722193334611">endorsement</a> to build momentum ahead of the June 24 primary.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a once-in-a-generation leader who has led the fight for working people in Congress. 
In 2018, she shocked the world and transformed our politics. 
On June 24, with <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AOC</a>’s support and this movement behind us, we will do the same. <a href="https://t.co/cRJI1dUTzG">pic.twitter.com/cRJI1dUTzG</a>
&mdash; Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1930601722193334611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;When you run a disciplined, grassroots campaign relentlessly focused on an agenda to address the crises in working people&#8217;s lives, these are the results,&#8221; Mamdani spokesperson Andrew Epstein said. &#8220;New York City is so close to turning the page on the corrupt politics of the past and winning a future we can afford.&#8221;
Cuomo&#8217;s campaign has disputed the poll results, with spokesperson Rich Azzopardi <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/11/zohran-mamdani-climbs-to-top-of-poll-leading-andrew-cuomo-00401594">telling</a> POLITICO that their internal polling shows the former governor maintaining &#8220;a consistent double-digit lead for more than three months.&#8221; The Cuomo spokesman complained that &#8220;the only polls showing this trend line are paid for by Zohran Mamdani Inc,&#8221; and, &#8220;It&#8217;s not lost on us that Politico is the only NYC media outlet that continues to take these outlier polls.&#8221;
According to POLITICO, the poll methodology might have slightly favored Mamdani, as 61% of responses came from text messages rather than landlines.
The former governor has recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cuomo-says-hell-spend-eight-years-in-washington-fighting-trump-if-he-wins-nyc-mayors-race?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Cuomo+Says+He%E2%80%99ll+Spend+%E2%80%98Eight+Years+In+Washington%E2%80%99+Fighting+Trump+If+He+Wins+NYC+Mayor%E2%80%99s+Race">sharpened</a> his attacks against Mamdani, questioning his &#8220;thin resume&#8221; and ability to lead New York City&#8217;s complex government. Cuomo maintains 42% support among black voters, while Mamdani showed the strongest appeal with white and Asian voters.
Ranked choice voting, which will be used in the Democratic primary in two weeks, was not simulated in the survey. However, a recent Emerson <a href="https://emersoncollegepolling.com/nyc-2025-poll/">poll</a> showed Mamdani performing better in later rounds of ranked choice voting than in early rounds by picking up second-choice votes after other candidates are eliminated, which could indicate an even larger lead than the PPP poll suggests.
In ranked-choice voting, voters rank up to five candidates in order of preference, and if no candidate receives more than 50% of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their votes are redistributed based on voters&#8217; next choices until someone wins a majority.
Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, running as an independent this cycle, has been far behind both Mamdani and Cuomo in general election polling, and is reportedly <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/30/us-news/eric-adams-quietly-tries-to-rally-nyc-republicans-to-run-on-gop-line-or-back-his-independent-mayoral-bid-as-politicos-grew-fearful-of-socialist-zohran-mamdani/">courting</a> Big Apple Republicans for support. Adams, who made an <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/adams-and-homan-deepen-partnership-law-enforcement-ice-00305221">alliance</a> with Trump border czar Tom Homan earlier this year, moved to open an ICE office on Rikers Island and cooperated to indict 27 alleged Tren de Aragua members.
Cuomo and Mamdani will face each other again in a debate Thursday night, where Cuomo is expected to continue highlighting Mamdani&#8217;s limited government experience and the fiscal impact of his policy proposals.
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CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten said Tuesday that foreign-born voters in the United States have swung toward the Republican Party on immigration by 40 points since 2020.
Immigrant voters have swung harder to the Right than any other demographic, Enten said. The transformation has come side-by-side with large gains by President Donald Trump among immigrant voters, as well.
“Foreign-born voters have gone tremendously to the Right on this issue in 2024 and 2025 versus where they were in 2020,” said Enten. “You go back to 2020, Democrats, get this, held a 32-point lead on this issue. Immigrant voters were in the Democratic camp. Jump forward to 2024, 2025. Look at that shift. A 40-point shift to the Right among immigrant voters.”
“Republicans now lead on this issue by eight points over Democrats, more so than any other group that I could find,” he added.
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No group has become more hawkish on immigration &amp; shifted to the GOP than immigrants.
Immigrant voters -Trust more on immigration in 2020: Dem +32 pt to Now: GOP +8 pt -Net fav of immigrants here illegally: +23 pt in &#39;20, -6 pt in &#39;24 -Trump&#39;s vote: 36% in &#39;16 to 47% in &#39;24! <a href="https://t.co/YebaSvfL7D">pic.twitter.com/YebaSvfL7D</a>
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Since 2016, Trump’s signature issue has been immigration, and he appears to have benefitted politically from immigrants’ views swinging hard to the Right on the issue. Among immigrants who are registered to vote in the United States, Trump has gained 11 points in support since his first presidential campaign.
“Look at this, 2016, he got 36 percent of the vote. You go to 2020, 39 percent of the vote. Look at this, in 2024, all the way up to 47 percent of the vote,” said Enten. “Some polls I looked at had him barely losing that vote. Some polls I looked at had him barely winning that vote. Again, there is no bloc of voters that shifted more to the Right from 2020 to 2024 than immigrant voters.”
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Immigrant voters have also soured in their views on illegal immigrants. In 2020, foreign-born voters had a 23-point positive view of illegal immigrants. In 2024, the consensus flipped to become a 6-point negative view of illegal immigrants, according to Enten.
Enten’s analysis of the legal immigrants’ views on immigration comes as Trump has responded forcefully to anti-immigration enforcement riots in the Los Angeles area. After days of unrest over federal immigration operations, the president ordered 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles on Sunday, followed by more guardsmen and Marines on Monday.
Rioters and demonstrators have attacked law enforcement, burned vehicles, and written threatening messages to federal immigration agents in recent days as the Trump administration has stepped up deportation operations in the Los Angeles area.
Democrats in California have fought Trump on the immigration operations. Governor Gavin Newsom backed a state lawsuit against the administration on Monday claiming that Trump’s orders sending in the military to quell the riots and protect law enforcement violated the law.

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Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania ripped into his own party on Monday over anti-immigration enforcement riots in the Los Angeles area.
“I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration — but this is not that. This is anarchy and true chaos,” Fetterman posted on social media. “My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.”
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I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration—but this is not that.
This is anarchy and true chaos.
My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement. <a href="https://t.co/pPYbvP6xR0">pic.twitter.com/pPYbvP6xR0</a>
&mdash; U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1932234335425323417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Pennsylvania senator’s condemnation of his own party comes as Democrats in Washington and California attack President Donald Trump and his administration for ordering National Guard troops and Marines to L.A. County.
Starting Friday, riots that began as anti-immigration enforcement protests have rocked pockets of L.A. Rioters in face masks and waving foreign flags have set fire to cars, thrown bricks at police and federal officers, confronted authorities, defaced property, blocked traffic, and promoted civil unrest.
Over the course of the riots, notable Democrats have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kamala-backs-la-protests-after-rioters-attack-federal-officers">focused</a> more ire against the Trump administration’s decision to send in troops to quell the unrest than condemn rioting among anti-law enforcement demonstrators, accusing federal authorities of escalating the situation.
“Deploying the National Guard is a dangerous escalation meant to provoke chaos. In addition to the recent ICE raids in Southern California and across our nation, it is part of the Trump Administration’s cruel, calculated agenda to spread panic and division,” former Vice President Kamala Harris said in a statement that went on to call the demonstrations “overwhelmingly peaceful.”
On Monday, California sued the Trump administration for ordering the National Guard into the Los Angeles area. California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom said that the president violated the Constitution and undermined the state’s autonomy with the order. Newsom and other Democrats have also claimed that additional law enforcement sent to Los Angeles has only exacerbated the protests rather than tamp them down.
Newsom and Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass have condemned violence during the protests. The two elected Democrats have faced fire from Trump and other Republicans for failing to quell the unrest in the first place, however.
“We made a great decision in sending the National Guard to deal with the violent, instigated riots in California. If we had not done so, Los Angeles would have been completely obliterated,” said Trump in a Monday <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114654277401980803">post</a> to Truth Social.
“The very incompetent ‘Governor,’ Gavin Newscum, and ‘Mayor,’ Karen Bass, should be saying, ‘THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL. WE WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT YOU, SIR,’” he continued. “Instead, they choose to lie to the People of California and America by saying that we weren’t needed, and that these are ‘peaceful protests.’ Just one look at the pictures and videos of the Violence and Destruction tells you all you have to know.”

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John Fetterman Blasts Democrats For Allowing ‘Anarchy And True Chaos’ To Rule L.A.

John Fetterman Blasts Democrats For Allowing ‘Anarchy And True Chaos’ To Rule LA

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Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chair Ken Martin became emotional during a recent call as he voiced his frustration with longtime activist and Vice Chair David Hogg, complaining that Hogg&#8217;s interference was preventing him from leading the party effectively.
POLITICO published a <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/08/martin-hogg-call-private-meeting-00393517">report</a> on Sunday sharing audio obtained from a May 15 Zoom meeting that included the DNC&#8217;s officers — and Martin could be heard criticizing Hogg for exacerbating divisions within the Democratic Party and complaining that made it impossible for him to implement any kind of cohesive strategy as the 2026 midterm elections approached.
&#8220;I’ll be very honest with you, for the first time in my 100 days on this job … the other night I said to myself for the first time, I don’t know if I wanna do this anymore,&#8221; Martin said.
The crux of Martin&#8217;s problem appeared to be Hogg&#8217;s promise to use the leftist organization Leaders We Deserve — where he serves as president — to funnel millions of dollars into primary campaigns against older and less progressive Democrats. But Hogg&#8217;s efforts to bring in fresh leadership have angered a number within the party — especially because, as an officer of the DNC, his primary job is to ensure that Democrats get elected — and have deepened the divisions that were already tearing at the fabric of the party nationwide.
Martin addressed Hogg directly during the meeting, saying, &#8220;No one knows who the hell I am, right? I’m trying to get my sea legs underneath of me and actually develop any amount of credibility so I can go out there and raise the money and do the job I need to put ourselves in a position to win. And again, I don’t think you intended this, but you essentially destroyed any chance I have to show the leadership that I need to. So it’s really frustrating.&#8221;
Martin is far from the only Democrat who voiced frustration with Hogg&#8217;s plan. Longtime strategist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-honeymoon-is-over-longtime-dem-strategist-trashes-contemptible-little-twerp-david-hogg">James Carville</a> referred to Hogg as a &#8220;contemptible little twerp&#8221; and suggested that donors could potentially sue him for working against party interests while being paid by the DNC.
According to POLITICO, Martin&#8217;s frustrations were simply that — and he has no plans to step aside despite any tensions with his vice chair: &#8220;I&#8217;m not going anywhere.&#8221;
&#8220;I took this job to fight Republicans, not Democrats. As I said when I was elected, our fight is not within the Democratic Party, our fight is and has to be solely focused on Donald Trump and the disastrous Republican agenda. That’s the work that I will continue to do every day,&#8221; he said.
Hogg did not comment on the confrontation.
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Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani surged to within single digits of disgraced former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary race, according to newly released polling.
According to a PIX 11/Emerson College poll released earlier this week, Mamdani, a 33-year-old Muslim from Queens who is a state assemblyman, trails Cuomo 54.4% to 45.6% after 10 simulated rounds of ranked-choice voting, a notable improvement from late March when Cuomo was ahead 38% to 10%.
“Cuomo has led in the polls since early 2025, but Mamdani has surged, gaining 23 points and winning second-choice votes nearly 2-to-1, cutting Cuomo’s ranked-choice lead from 12 points to 9 points,” Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling, <a href="https://emersoncollegepolling.com/nyc-2025-poll/">said</a>. &#8220;With four weeks to go, the question is whether Cuomo can run out the clock, or if he needs to win over second-choice voters to hold off Mamdani&#8217;s momentum.”
Cuomo maintained his strong lead in the early rounds of ranked choice voting in the poll, with Mamdani only closing the gap in later rounds.
In ranked-choice voting, voters rank up to five candidates in order of preference, and if no candidate receives more than 50% of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated and their votes are redistributed based on voters&#8217; next choices until someone wins a majority.
The ranked-choice voting system appears to be working to Mamdani&#8217;s advantage, as, according to the poll, he continues gaining ground by picking up second-choice votes after other candidates are eliminated.
Per the Emerson report, “35% of voters support former Governor Andrew Cuomo on the first round of the ballot, 23% support State Rep. Zohran Mamdani, 11% support Comptroller Brad Lander, 9% former State Rep. Scott Stringer, 8% City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, and 5% State Senator Zellnor Myrie.”
“Cuomo’s strongest support comes from black voters (74%), voters over 50 (66%), and women (58% to 42%),” Kimball added. “Mamdani leads among voters under 50 with 61%, and holds an edge among white voters (57% to 43%) and college-educated voters (58% to 42%).”
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Cuomo’s campaign maintains that the Emerson poll is an “outlier,” with campaign spokesman Rich Azzopardi <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/3425895/zohran-mamdani-andrew-cuomo-new-york-city-mayor-race-closes-gap-poll/">telling</a> the Washington Examiner that the ex-governor “is the consistent and overwhelming frontrunner in this race.”
However, Mamdani has effectively formed strategic alliances with other left-wing candidates in an effort to block the 67-year-old former governor&#8217;s political comeback and consolidate his base.
Mamdani called on his supporters to <a href="https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/05/how-much-did-zohran-mamdanis-call-action-help-adrienne-adams-fundraising/405674/?oref=csny-skybox-lander">contribute</a> to rival progressive Adrienne Adams&#8217; campaign in order to help her qualify for matching public funds in a slight against Cuomo, aiming to pick up second-choice votes after other candidates are eliminated.
In a hypothetical general election matchup, the poll shows Cuomo performs better against Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, with Cuomo winning 44% support compared to 35% for Mamdani if he were the Democratic nominee. Sliwa is the founder of the Guardian Angels and lost the 2021 mayoral election to current New York Mayor Eric Adams, a registered Democrat running this cycle as an independent, according to Emerson College Polling.
Meanwhile, incumbent Mayor Adams, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/eric-adams-back-in-nyc-mayor-race-as-an-independent">running</a> as an independent, would receive just 10% support against Cuomo but would climb to 15% against Mamdani.
Mamdani, elected to the State Assembly in 2020, has positioned himself as a leftist alternative to Cuomo&#8217;s more moderate brand of Democratic politics, campaigning on free public bus fares, free child care, and city-run grocery stores.
Mandani&#8217;s campaign celebrated the results of the poll, <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/28/us-news/surging-mamdani-cuts-cuomos-lead-in-democratic-nyc-mayoral-primary-to-just-single-digits-poll/">stating</a>, &#8220;Andrew Cuomo has hit his ceiling, while we&#8217;re nowhere near ours,&#8221; per The New York Post. Mamdani himself posted on X, &#8220;We&#8217;re now 8 points away from sending Andrew Cuomo back to the suburbs.”
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— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1927838351874248869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 28, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/27/us-news/zohran-mamdani-makes-up-ground-in-nyc-mayoral-race-but-still-cant-topple-cuomos-lead-poll/">adds</a> that ranked-choice surveys released by other pollsters, including Mamdani’s own polling released on Tuesday, show Cuomo defeating the democratic socialist by significant margins.
The Emerson poll was conducted with 1,000 registered NYC voters with a margin of error of +/- 3%, and the ranked choice voting simulation included 500 Democrats, excluding undecided voters, with a margin of error of +/- 4.3 percentage points.
The primary election is scheduled for June 24, with early voting beginning June 14.

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President Donald Trump imposes a deadline on Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Democratic Party loses ground with young people and men, and controversy continues to swirl around WNBA stars Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.
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<h2>Trump&#8217;s Red Line</h2>
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Topline: In a flurry of activity, the president appeared to give Russian President Vladimir Putin an ultimatum this week, and vowed to push ahead with tariffs despite a roadblock in the courts.
After a recent barrage of Russian airstrikes against Ukrainian cities, Trump has become far more critical of his counterpart in Moscow, accusing Putin of intentionally stalling on peace negotiations. Putin promised last week to deliver a peace proposal to progress formal talks, but so far, no such progress has been made. The Kremlin will only say that its proposal is in its “final stages.”
“We’ll find out whether or not he’s tapping us along or not and if he is, we’ll respond a little bit differently,” Trump said in an apparent ultimatum. “But it will take about a week and a half to two weeks.” Last weekend, the president <a href="https://x.com/Mylovanov/status/1927808946187759920">said</a> he was strongly considering new retaliatory sanctions on Moscow, but in recent days, he’s walked back that idea, saying he didn’t want to hinder a potential peace agreement.
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Meanwhile, on Wednesday night, a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of International Trade struck down dozens of President Trump’s tariffs on countries worldwide. Trump invoked the Emergency Economic Powers Act to implement those tariffs, arguing fentanyl trafficking and trade deficits constituted a national emergency, but the court ruled that Trump “exceed[ed] any authority granted to the President” by the act. On Thursday morning, a second federal court in D.C. issued a similar ruling, saying Trump’s tariffs were unlawful.
The first ruling was put on hold by a federal appeals court on Thursday afternoon, which ruled in Trump’s favor — it said all tariffs can remain in place while the court reviews the case. The Trump administration says it won’t be slowed down, referring to the rulings as a hiccup — and it is confident the decision will be overturned on appeal and won’t impact ongoing trade talks.
And, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced this week that the administration would work to “aggressively revoke” the visas of Chinese exchange students with ties to the Communist Party, along with those studying in “critical fields.” Chinese students account for 20% of all student visas — the State Department has for years warned that many of these students work with the CCP to smuggle sensitive research data and other intellectual property back to Beijing.
<h2>Democrats Hit Rock Bottom</h2>
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Topline: Democrats are struggling to connect with American men, a demographic that played a crucial role in putting Trump back in the White House. A recent report leaked to The New York Times highlights the party’s $20 million plan to win them back.
Democrats are facing a crisis of perception and policy — the party’s approval rating has plummeted to 27%, the lowest since 1990. Young men in particular have shifted rightward, with many feeling alienated by the Democratic Party’s messaging and drawn to the GOP’s bold, unapologetic style, exemplified by the head of the party himself — Trump. A focus group cited in the Times report found that voters see Democrats as “tortoises” or “sloths” — slow and passive — compared to Republicans, who are viewed as aggressive “apex predators.”
Working-class counties with lower median incomes have seen young men gravitate toward the GOP, which they perceive as the better choice for addressing their economic concerns, like job security and cost of living. Young white men, particularly those without college degrees, feel that the Democrats’ focus on social issues — like gender identity or systemic racism — demonizes them. Many resented the Biden administration’s heavy push for DEI policies. Meanwhile, the GOP’s presence on platforms like YouTube and popular podcasts like Joe Rogan has created a cultural pull that Democrats are struggling to counter.
In response, the Democrats have a $20 million initiative called “American Men: A Strategic Plan&#8221; that will &#8220;study the syntax, language and content that gains attention and virality in these spaces&#8221; of male voters. The focus is on digital outreach, emphasizing platforms like TikTok, YouTube, and podcasts.
“[There’s been] a huge shift in the way the media landscape work[s],” pollster Carly Cooperman told The Daily Wire. “I think we saw Democrats wary of going on some of these podcasts that lean culturally conservative, or where Republicans were going on, but that is the shifting landscape, and that is where people are reaching men, and particularly younger men.”
<h2>WNBA Race Bait</h2>
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Topline: Caitlin Clark continues to draw strong ratings for the WNBA, while the league finds itself engulfed in racial controversy.
The WNBA is just two weeks into the 2025 season, but it only took one game for the league to investigate accusations of racism. Caitlin Clark’s team, the Indiana Fever, played the Chicago Sky on May 17, and Clark was called for a flagrant foul following a physical interaction with her rival, Angel Reese. After the foul, Reese began to come after Clark and taunt her. Clark’s team went on to win in a total blowout.
Neither team mentioned any fan remarks in the postgame news conferences afterward, but allegations of “hateful” remarks supposedly directed at Reese, who is black, quickly became a topic on social media. The WNBA announced within a few hours that it would investigate those claims.
“Obviously, there’s no place in this league for that,” Reese said. “I think the WNBA and our team and our organization has done a great job supporting me. … Going through this whole process, if it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.”
After about a week of trying to find any evidence of racist fan behavior against Reese, the league announced that it found none. “We have investigated the report of racist fan behavior in the vicinity of the court during the May 17, 2025, Chicago Sky at Indiana Fever game. Based on information gathered to date, including from relevant fans, team and arena staff, as well as audio and video review of the game, we have not substantiated it.” The league went on to ensure everyone knows it is committed to “fostering a safe and inclusive environment for everyone” and that it would “continue to be vigilant in enforcing our fan code of conduct.”
Many across the country are calling out the league for giving credence to baseless social media claims. Others have blasted Reese for playing the victim despite the lack of any evidence. Senator Jim Banks (R-IN) wrote on <a href="https://x.com/Jim_Banks/status/1927498571806367843">X</a>, &#8220;Angel Reese owes Indiana fans an apology.”

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