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ALT Democrats and Republicans will need to realize that the median swing voter does not always equal a suburban white soccer mom in Wisconsin — it may be a construction worker in Laredo upset about the increase in gas prices, or a Puerto Rican mother in Orlando who is trying to save enough to send her kids to college. Their votes are not guaranteed and must be regularly courted. The candidates who pretend otherwise will have more disappointing nights in their future.
ALT Raman and Lewis George’s ascendance follows that of Zohran Mamdani in New York last year who similarly married socialist and YIMBY perspectives during his successful mayoral campaign. All three politicians were endorsed by local chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America and have moved past the far left’s deep-seated skepticism that private developers can play a role in making housing more affordable. “It’s thrilling,” said Paul Williams, who served on Mamdani’s transition team and is executive director of the New York-based think tank Center for Public Enterprise. “When Mamdani got elected, there was almost an only-Nixon-could-go-to-China attitude that some people had about this. But then Janeese ran on it. And Nithya ran on it. Now it’s just, this is what’s happening in America now.”
