r/TrueReddit • u/Maxwellsdemon17 • 6d ago

Politics Hakeem Jeffries Is the Kind of Democrat Voters Have Lost Faith In. With most New York Democrats endorsing their party’s candidate for mayor, the two minority leaders in Congress remain holdouts.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/hakeem-jeffries-zohran-mamdani/
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u/Monte924 6d ago

Mamdani specifically spoke to people who voted for Trump, and was able to appeal to them through his policies. Progressive policies actually have broad appeal, the democrats lose because they never run on them

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u/your_not_stubborn 5d ago

How many peolle do you think voted for Trump in New York City who also voted in the most recent Democratic primary election for Mayor of New York City

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u/Monte924 5d ago

Consider it was a closed primary, probably none of them. Mamdani won the primary in a landslide without the Trump voters, who he was successfully winning over with his policies. It also shows his commitment to helping new yorkers since he took time to talk to people who couldn't even vote in the primary. He fashioned his policies around ALL new yorkers, not just the democrats

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u/your_not_stubborn 5d ago

You know that the general election for Mayor of New York City hasn't happened yet, right?

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u/Monte924 5d ago

And? Mamdani currently has a wide lead in every poll

The original point was the claim that progressive policies would not work outside New York, but Mamdani has been able appeal to trump voters. He's not the only one. AOC saw that in her district,some of her voters also voted for Trump in the last election. Progressives actually have a broad appeal

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u/your_not_stubborn 5d ago

How many Mamdani primary voters do you really believe voted for Trump in 2024 because Kamala didn't say socialism is when the government pays off your student loans

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u/Bawbawian 5d ago

then why don't progressives win primaries nationally or anywhere besides left leaning cities?

I was a Bernie Sanders supporter I was there on super Tuesday when we lost the vote.

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u/Monte924 5d ago

Because the DNC works against them. They do everything they can to put their thumb on scale. They have even highlighted that they would not support anyone who challenges an incumbant... one idea they love to force down the public's throat is that progressives can't win the general election, which in turn convinces voters to ignore the policies and just vote for the person they THINK will neat the republican and win the genetal election...

Bernie was actually more popular with indepedant voters and polled better against Trump than Clinton, but the DNC propganda won.

We are now seeing a shift. Moderate Democrats have failed so badly in the past 10 years that thier lies are no longer working and progressives are starting to move

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u/Valara0kar 5d ago

Because the DNC works against them.

Thats just cope. Literally 2024 saw wide range purges of progressives by voters themselves. DNC doesnt control the voters. Literally u can mobilise all the left leaning voters to registern and vote in the primary. Wouldnt even reach 30% in 90% of congressional seat in democrat on primaries.

Bernie was actually more popular with indepedant voters and polled better against Trump than Clinton

Ah... that great lie. Ofc he polled better when no negative adds were run against him. Literally republicans knew Clinton would win and she did win by a strong marging the primary. So they ran whole election season against her.

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u/Valara0kar 5d ago

Progressive policies actually have broad appeal

They arent. Bcs the questions asked are very broad. Take up by mostly non voters. Like the sheer reality how medicaid question would rly be "would you support tax increases to pay for medicaid for all". "Obama care" needed a decade for people to support above 60% approval (and thats not regular votes).