Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani attending an event at the SOMOS Puerto Rico conference in San Juan on Nov. 6, 2025. AP Photo/Alejandro Granadillo

Liberal: Democrats’ Premature Victory Lap

Yes, “Democrats had a very good night on Tuesday,” argues Ruy Teixeira at The Free Press , but they shouldn’t use “a few good results in a few states as permission to memory-hole last year’s disastrous performance” and “why they lost so badly.”

Tuesday’s wins are “no more than a down payment on fixing that problem.”

In Virginia and New Jersey, Democrats benefited from “educated, engaged voters” and their over-presentation in “low turnout elections.”

Dems continued to “do far better among college-educated voters than among working-class (non-college) voters.”

Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York “showed t

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