Polls indicate that Wiener will likely receive some 40 percent of the votes in the primary, while the other leading candidates, District 1 supervisor Connie Chan and tech centimillionaire Saikat Chakrabarti, are likely to each receive about 20 percent.
AIPAC pivoted in the final week of the campaign to focusing its fire on the more pro-Palestinian Abughazaleh than Biss, who was backed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.). Another AIPAC affiliate, Chicago Progressive Partnership, ran ads painting Abughazaleh as a closet Republican and boosting a lower tier leftist in the race, Bushra Amiwala.
Policies rooted in equity, a billion dollar bond for affordable housing, install city-owned solar panels, create green union jobs, and fund alternative crisis response service. She's pushing other things too about affordability and fast-tracking shelter space when the other mayor cleared everybody out, the homeless encampments, she wants to change the way police do their job and their tactics. Sounds a little bit no it doesn't, it sounds a lot about what we've heard in New York.
Winning elections is about addition. We need a big tent. That's why instead of writing off candidates who resonate with voters... Democrats should embrace candidates who can authentically speak to the electorate.
