Overview
- Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mayor Zohran Mamdani held a get-out-the-vote rally at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn to back Brad Lander, Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier.
- The event, held on Thursday, used celebrity hosts and a More Perfect Union sponsorship to raise turnout for the three progressive challengers.
- One endorsed candidate, Darializa Avila Chevalier, is under fire for archived deleted social posts that critics say undermine her candidacy and that Mamdani has publicly defended.
- Mamdani cast an early ballot on Saturday and continued to press supporters to vote early as campaigns and outside groups spent six- to seven-figure sums in the races.
- The contests have nationalized local primaries by pitting the DSA-backed insurgency against incumbents with establishment support and could reshape the party’s balance if turnout favors the progressive slate.