They would not be supported by Jeffries and Schumer.

So what? All politicians in America are entrepreneurs, who have to build their own support base. The endorsement whining is just left's way of processing loss.

I guess in case of Mamdani, it's left's way of processing not losing, which is tantamount to a loss (as it interferes with whining).

The problem of course being that they would find and fund a competitor for the primary. That would have to be factored into the cost of going against them. Either have the funding lined up or make sure you knew your path and pushed it hard. It'd be a one way street till you won.

There are specific states where this is hard (really just New York I think), but I think the more people just do it, the more the cordon sanitaire weakens.

Why do you say that? Mamdani just did it and won the most votes in a NYC mayoral primary ever.

Against an unusually weak candidate, among the most left-wing electorate in the state. If you add in heavily Jewish suburbs of the city, the dynamic changes.

Put another way: the parents of Mamdanis's leftist Jewish voters live in Westchester and LI, and they're fucking insane.

Also he’s mayor. He doesn’t hold the fate of Israel in his hands the way the media seemed to pretend.

Maybe wouldn’t change much. Normie liberal jews are pissed at Israel. A skilled candidate who can avoid anti-semitism pitfalls can probably say he’s going to kick netanyahus ass

I think it makes the dance a lot more precarious than elsewhere. Like, look at how Rye and towns like it voted in 2024 vis a vis Bowman.

I think there are a lot of normie liberal jews pissed at Israel who also don't like candidates who criticize Israel a lot especially ones who aren't Jewish and it shows up in vote numbers.

Does it?

read the thing you posted again

Like I do think this would count against a candidate where I am (purple NY suburbs), but even here not by as much as one might think.

Seems like every Jewish Democrat I know has more or less come around to the idea that the state of Israel needs to be stopped. Most think of this just as a Netanyahu problem, though, and most were not here in 2023 or 2024. But they're there now.