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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dustin Guastella

Leftist and centrist Democrats won on Tuesday. So what’s the party’s lesson?

side by side photos of spanberger, mamdani and sherill
‘If moderates want to help Democrats retake Congress, they need to learn what it is to have conviction.’ Photograph: AP

On Tuesday, Democrats won right, left and center.

In purple Virginia, Abigail Spanberger, the staunchly anti-socialist former CIA official won handily over her Republican counterpart. Meanwhile, Mikie Sherrill, a poster child for centrist Democrats, won big in light-blue New Jersey. And in ultra-progressive New York, the democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, predictably, took the mayoralty. With such varied success, what could be the common lesson?

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