SORRY, CUZ: Mayor Daniel Lurie has had a stellar 18 months in office. Voters love him, according to recent polls (opens in new tab), and overwhelmingly approve of his job performance.
It’s been a tougher go for Lurie’s cousin, New York Rep. Dan Goldman, who lost his reelection campaign (opens in new tab) Tuesday night to progressive former City Comptroller Brad Lander in a bitter Democratic primary that revolved around one of the most divisive issues in politics: Israel’s war in Gaza (opens in new tab).
Lander and Goldman, both Jewish and self-described progressives, have criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government. But Lander leveraged Goldman’s ties to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (opens in new tab) as the defining difference, a strategy that appealed to progressive voters who see the lobbying group as a political bogeyman. AIPAC endorsed Goldman and funneled donations through its website to his campaign (opens in new tab). The left-leaning “pro-peace” group J Street also backed Goldman’s reelection bid.
Lander was boosted by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist and outspoken critic of Israel and what he has characterized as its genocidal war in Gaza. In a victory speech Tuesday night, Mamdani said Lander “brings a vision of politics that is more than what we’ve seen for so long” and hailed him as a kind leader who will “always have our back.”
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