At the Races: Goodbye, Madam Speaker. Hello, Mayor Mamdani.

.By Niels Lesniewski, Mary Ellen McIntire and Daniela Altimari

The messages from Republican campaign outfits after Tuesday night, when Democrats won basically everything, were largely not about introspection or recalibrating. They were about New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani .

The Congressional Leadership Fund, for instance, was asking whether Democrats in contested House races would want the endorsement of Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist. “Every Democrat running for office will have to answer for Mamdani’s socialist policies,” the email read.

Back in March, we looked at the GOP’s search for a new “boogeyman.” to succeed former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who announced Thursday morning she won’t seek reelection to her San Francisco-based House seat.

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