Mamdani-backed candidates win big in New York Democratic primaries – US politics live

Hello and welcome to our US politics liveblog. Three congressional candidates endorsed by Zohran Mamdani , New York’s democratic socialist mayor, won their closely watched primaries on Tuesday, beating out incumbents or incumbent-backed candidates supported by the Democratic establishment . Brad Lander , the former New York City comptroller who also ran for mayor last year before endorsing Mamdani, defeated the two-term incumbent Democrat Dan Goldman in NY-10. Political newcomer Darializa Avila Chevalier won against five-term incumbent Democrat Adriano Espaillat in NY-13 in a stunning upset. And in NY-7, Claire Valdez beat out Brooklyn borough president Antonio Reynoso – the handpicked successor of Nydia Velázquez , the first Puerto Rican woman to serve in Congress who is considered a progressive giant of New York City politics. This clean sweep for Mamdani is a clear indicator of his growing influence – and that of his ascendant progressive movement – over the Democratic party . “The old politics that got us into this crisis is not the politics that’s going to get us out of this crisis,” Mamdani said at a watch party for Valdez. Mamdani-backed candidates sweep Democratic primaries in New York City Read more In other developments: In Maryland , Adrian Boafo won the extremely crowded primary race to succeed Steny Hoyer , the longest-serving House Democrat and a longtime member of leadership who is retiring at the end of his 23rd term. Boafo, a state delegate, defeated the former US Capitol police officer Harry Dunn , who defended the building on January 6, and businesswoman Quincy Bareebe . April McClain Delaney fended off her predecessor, the former Democratic congressman David Trone , who sought to reclaim his seat in Maryland’s sixth district after an unsuccessful bid for Senate two years ago. Nancy Lacore , a three-star navy rear-admiral fired by Pete Hegseth last year in the defense secretary’s purge of senior US military officials, has won the Democratic nomination in a runoff for a closely watched congressional race in South Carolina . South Carolina’s attorney general, Alan Wilson, won the Republican nomination for governor, defeating Trump-backed lieutenant governor Pamela Evette . In Utah , former congressman Ben McAdams , a political moderate, won the primary to compete in a ​n​ewly drawn Democratic-friendly district in Salt Lake City . Donald Trump is slated to meet with the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte , in the Oval office on Wednesday. Later Wednesday, Trump will also be hosting the opening of The Great American State Fair , an event held by the Freedom 250 , an organization run by Trump supporters to mark the United States’ 250th anniversary and run counter to America250 , the nonpartisan body set up by Congress a decade ago to oversee the commemoration.