New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn't running for Congress, but he's the main character in a bid to remake New York's congressional delegation by backing three far-left candidates with ties to the Democratic Socialists of America to take on two mainstream Democratic incumbents, Adriano Espaillat in the Bronx and Dan Goldman in Brooklyn/Lower Manhattan, as well as an open seat in Queens.
Those lawmakers backed other candidates in the mayor's race and are seen as insufficiently adversarial toward Israel in its war on Hamas, a passionate subject for the mayor.
