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  • My first reply was pretty aggressive. Sorry about that. My emotional regulation is not so good late in the day. Still I don’t think we need to cater to perceived centrism. I can acknowledge that Mamdani had to overcome 2 parties to get elected, but he won the NYC mayoral race by 9.5 points despite running against an independent candidate endorsed by the incumbent mayor and with massive investment in his campaign by AIPAC and a laundry list of Republican PACs. I think that’s significant enough of a spread to overcome the thought that being leftist makes you unappealing to upstate independent voters. Given Mamdani’s performance so far, if he can keep gaining support through political action, I see no reason why a leftist candidate endorsed by Mamdani in a state election would struggle to win Shumer’s seat. Personally. I understand others may disagree, but we tried Shumer’s strategy and it led us to Trump.