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On January\u00a027th, the third day of New York City\u2019s record-breaking snowstorm, Zohran Mamdani, the newly inaugurated mayor, sent out a text to his enormous fleet of campaign volunteers. \u201cMy friend Claire Valdez is running for Congress,\u201d he wrote. \u201cDo me a favor and watch the video,\u201d along with a clip he\u2019d just filmed with Valdez, a fellow-member of the Democratic Socialists of America, promoting her campaign for New York\u2019s Seventh Congressional District. A day later, as the snow was still coming down, Mamdani texted again. \u201cHello my friend,\u201d the message began. \u201cIt\u2019s Mayor Zohran Mamdani again, just following up on my text from yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n

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To those with a secure attachment style, double texting can come off as needy or desperate. But it was probably a smart move to circle back. The Seventh District is, by many measures, home to the most left-wing voters in America. It covers neighborhoods such as Long Island City and Ridgewood, in Queens, and Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and Bushwick, in Brooklyn\u2014like a Maginot Line of the city\u2019s most democratic-socialist neighborhoods. The Seventh District voted sixty-five per cent for Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral primary\u2014his largest margin in the city\u2014and has elected D.S.A. candidates at the state and local level for at least six years. It is in the ninety-ninth percentile nationally for millennials and ninety-ninth for renters. In Congress, it has been represented for the past thirty-three years by Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez, a legendary progressive, who is not a member of the D.S.A., but is widely respected by the D.S.A. and the rest of the New York left. All this was explained to me, shortly after Mamdani\u2019s primary win, by Michael Lange, a local-politics analyst who is widely credited with coining the term \u201cCommie Corridor\u201d to describe the areas of New York that elected Mamdani and other D.S.A. candidates. I asked Lange, if the Seventh District was such a leftist hotbed, why it didn\u2019t have a D.S.A. congressperson. \u201cNobody is going to primary Nydia,\u201d he told me. A few weeks later, Vel\u00e1zquez announced that she would retire. It set off a scramble. Mamdani endorsed Valdez; Vel\u00e1zquez picked Antonio Reynoso, another progressive, as her chosen successor.<\/p>\n

Lange has called the upcoming primary, set for June\u00a023rd, a \u201ccivil war in the Commie Corridor.\u201d As in most civil wars, the two camps have more in common than not. Valdez is a current State Assembly member and a former union organizer at the United Auto Workers\u2014which represents, in America\u2019s unique labor system, autoworkers and graduate students. Reynoso, the current Brooklyn borough president, previously co-founded the New Kings Democrats, a group of insurgent candidates who challenged the Brooklyn Democratic establishment in the twenty-tens. Both support abolishing ICE<\/em> and ending the war in Gaza, and both campaigned for Mamdani\u2014although Valdez endorsed him earlier. Marina Robinson, a Valdez canvasser, told me, \u201cAntonio is a nice progressive person. If Claire wasn\u2019t running in this, probably, like, sure, fine. The problem is he is what I would consider a \u2018focus-group\u2019 progressive. He waits to see where the wind blows.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Reynoso was born in the district, and much of his campaign against Valdez, who moved to Bed-Stuy from Texas in 2015, has been about his stronger local ties. Vel\u00e1zquez, in a withering interview with the Times<\/em>, said that she was unsure whether Valdez knows her way around the whole district. (During the first TV debate, Valdez blanked when asked to name her favorite local food cart, responding, \u201cOh, no\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u201d before settling on a juice cart near a Queens library.) When Vel\u00e1zquez was first elected to Congress, in 1992, the Seventh District had a notably working-class Hispanic electorate, and Vel\u00e1zquez has heavily implied that supporters of Valdez are largely newer arrivals to the city. (The word \u201ctransplant\u201d has hovered, perhaps unkindly, in the background.) In February, Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl halftime show featured a surprise cameo from To\u00f1ita, a beloved icon of Williamsburg\u2019s historically Puerto Rican Los Sures neighborhood. Reynoso posted a photo with her later that day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Valdez supporters, chief among them Mamdani, say that Valdez has stronger and longer-held convictions. Two months before polling day, I watched the Mayor speak to a rapt crowd at a star-studded arts-and-culture-themed fund-raiser, held in the Weylin, a grand converted bank in Williamsburg. In some ways, it felt like the political was personal. Valdez, Mamdani said, had been the only elected official to support him at the launch of his campaign, when he was polling less than one per cent, standing in an empty lot in Long Island City. \u201cShe does not wait to find out if the right thing is the popular thing,\u201d he told the crowd. \u201cShe does the right thing and then does the work to make it the popular thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mamdani has done his best to bring his nascent celebrity and the momentum of his mayoral win to bear for Valdez: it was early in the campaign, but at the arts-and-culture fund-raiser, it seemed to be working. James Murphy, the front man of LCD Soundsystem, told me, \u201cI\u2019m in the middle of making a record, so my head is down, but my wife, who is much smarter and tapped in than I am, was, like, You\u2019re donating money and I\u2019m donating money, and we\u2019re going to this.\u201d The room of artists and creatives talking about affordability, he told me, felt like \u201cthe New York that I moved into in 1989.\u201d Malgosia Turzanska, the costume designer for \u201cHamnet\u201d and \u201cTrain Dreams,\u201d told me, of Valdez, \u201cThe fact that she supports taxing the rich and her socialist-democratic approach is what I agree with.\u201d Famously, mayors of New York City seldom graduate to higher office, but, in Valdez, Mamdani and the D.S.A. have an immediate surrogate. Mamdani spelled it out. His opponents, he said, \u201cwant my election to be an exception\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0Claire winning is how it stops being an exception.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ideologically, the race can resemble an Olympic sprint final, in that it can sometimes be settled by who came out of the blocks first. As Robinson, the Valdez canvasser I met on the campaign trail, told me, \u201cI\u2019ve had people at the doors in Williamsburg who are, like, \u2018O.K., I\u2019ve looked at their websites, this stuff sounds the same.\u2019 The challenge is to say, \u2018I know it looks similar, but Claire has been fighting for this since the beginning.\u2019\u00a0\u201d Alexis Bittar, a designer and the lead organizer of the arts-and-culture fund-raiser, told me that he supported Valdez because she had called Israel\u2019s war in Gaza a genocide first. \u201cAntonio, I think, actually lagged a little bit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe did,\u201d Reynoso acknowledged, when I brought it up. \u201cBut she didn’t say that she wanted ICE<\/em> out of Rikers before me. She didn’t say that she wanted to remove illegal consent searches from police departments before I did.\u201d He added, \u201cThere\u2019s always somebody who said something first.\u201d<\/p>\n

May\u00a02nd\u2014the day after May\u00a0Day\u2014was a busy one for both campaigns. Valdez, who wore black jeans and a light black puffer, held a labor-themed rally at Queensbridge Park, in Long Island City, along the East River. \u201cMay Day is one of my favorite holidays,\u201d she told me. \u201cI love hearing workers talk about their struggle and how they organize.\u201d She said that one of her main aims, in Congress, would be to promote a general workers\u2019 strike in 2028 that had been called for by her old boss at the U.A.W., Shawn Fain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Despite Valdez\u2019s union background, Reynoso has overwhelmingly more endorsements from unions. It can get confusing. At a canvas at Maria Hernandez Park, in Bushwick, I overheard Valdez introduce herself to a voter named Andy. \u201cAnd you got endorsed by every union, right?\u201d he asked. \u201cNot me,\u201d Valdez said, a little wistfully, \u201cbut that\u2019s O.K. I\u2019m endorsed by mine.\u201d (\u201cYou\u2019re an autoworker?\u201d Andy, who used to work with cars, asked. \u201cNo,\u201d Valdez said.)<\/p>\n

A common narrative among Valdez supporters is that she is a background organizer who somewhat reluctantly has run for Congress\u2014sort of like the D.S.A. equivalent of a fairy tale. At the May Day rally, I met Oren, a special-education high-school math teacher, who had known Valdez from D.S.A. circles since before she was an Assembly member. When I asked him to describe her, he told me, \u201cI would say the word \u2018cadre\u2019\u2014which means core organizer devoting your life and subordinating your own needs to the needs of the whole working class.\u201d Mamdani has likened Valdez to Ella Baker, a civil-rights activist who coined the term \u201cspadework\u201d to describe the unflashy, often overlooked work that makes political change possible.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret, meanwhile, that Reynoso wasn\u2019t Vel\u00e1zquez\u2019s first choice to run. At one of his rallies, Vel\u00e1zquez told the crowd that she initially wanted her and Mamdani to back the same candidate, and she had proposed Tiffany Cab\u00e1n, a D.S.A. member who has Puerto Rican heritage and strong community ties, and currently represents Astoria as a City Council member. Mamdani preferred Valdez. According to a Reynoso staffer, Vel\u00e1zquez then suggested Julia Salazar, another D.S.A. member who is a state senator. Mamdani still insisted on Valdez, and Salazar ultimately wasn\u2019t interested.<\/p>\n

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I asked Valdez if it was true that she had been a reluctant candidate. She told me, \u201cI was asked to run for this office and I was asked to run for State Assembly.\u201d She drew a parallel to her true love, union organizing. \u201cThe essential role of an organizer is to ask somebody to do something they probably don\u2019t want to do. I was organized to run for Congress.\u201d She told me that she\u2019d found the transition\u2014from cadre to candidate\u2014hard. I asked what was difficult about it. She paused for an unusually long time. \u201cIt can feel very lonely,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Who will win? It can sound like a riddle: unstoppable democratic-socialist force meets immovable progressive object. \u201cI am going against the energy of Zohran Mamdani and D.S.A, and this is a district where he won with the largest lead,\u201d Reynoso told me. Reynoso\u2019s staffers seemed anxious about an inevitable wave of D.S.A. endorsements, as if bracing for a storm. (The real cyclone has not arrived: New York\u2019s only D.S.A. congresswoman, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has, not endorsed a candidate in the race.)<\/p>\n

Still, Reynoso has been endorsed by the New York Working Families Party, a long-standing progressive coalition to the left of the Democratic establishment. The Seventh District may have delivered Mamdani\u2019s biggest margin, but Jasmine Gripper, the state director of the N.Y.W.F.P., told me that the seat is also one of the country\u2019s biggest followers of the W.F.P. ballot line. \u201cThis is our seat,\u201d Gripper told me. \u201cThere are parts of this district where the W.F.P. line can generate ten to twenty per cent of the vote share.\u201d Mamdani\u2019s sixty-five-per-cent landslide in the district came after he was added to the W.F.P. line, and after a cross-endorsement deal brokered with Brad Lander.<\/p>\n

Earlier, I\u2019d spoken to a Valdez campaigner, Mateo Striedinger, who previously voted on the W.F.P. line but said that the endorsement of Reynoso was a \u201cbetrayal.\u201d (Striedinger, a former marine, had been born in Colombia, served in Japan, and then moved to New York, he said, because it was walkable.) I asked Gripper whether, if Valdez were to win the primary, it would signal a handover of relevance between the D.S.A. and the W.F.P. \u201cThis race will demonstrate what voters are listening to,\u201d Gripper said. \u201cWe\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After going to Valdez\u2019s May\u00a0Day rally, I headed to the Reynoso campaign\u2019s headquarters in Williamsburg, where Reynoso, who is Dominican, had organized a Dominican Day rally. The office was covered with Dominican flags, and a few older men and women played dominoes, quietly, in the corner. I found myself standing next to Radham\u00e9s Rodr\u00edguez, the president of the United Bodegas of America, as a folk dancer dressed in the colors of the Dominican flag twirled past us.<\/p>\n

A common critique of Valdez is that, until she was endorsed by Mamdani, she was relatively unknown. Reynoso, in various offices, has long been active in the community. \u201cI\u2019ve seen Antonio do that work for over twenty years,\u201d Carmen De La Rosa, a City Council member, told me. \u201cI think she\u2019s impressive as well,\u201d De La Rosa added, of Valdez, \u201cbut I can\u2019t tell you I\u2019ve seen Claire do that for twenty years.\u201d<\/p>\n

De La Rosa talked me through how she would convince a pro-Mamdani voter to vote for Reynoso. \u201cI think that the Mayor has the right to support who he wants,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019d tell them, \u2018I support Mamdani, but he\u2019s not on the ballot right now.\u2019\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mayor is still muddying the waters, though. Outside Reynoso headquarters, I met Ralph Rosario, a South Williamsburg local who works as a union foreman. He and his wife, Caylee Clay, had spent the day canvassing for Reynoso and were eating a quick lunch of empanadas. Rosario said that he first met Reynoso ten years ago, when the candidate, who was a councilman at the time, supported his union in a dispute with a property company. \u201cAntonio is always there for the working class,\u201d Rosario told me. \u201cHe\u2019s my neighbor. I run into him at restaurants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rosario and Clay were both staunch Mamdani supporters, and I asked them what they made of the fact that Mamdani had endorsed Reynoso\u2019s opponent. Rosario was taken aback: he hadn\u2019t known that had happened. \u201cMamdani\u2019s not supporting him?\u201d he asked. \u201cThat\u2019s something we\u2019re going to have to work with,\u201d he said, to Clay. I asked if it bothered them to be on the opposite side of the Mayor. \u201cA little bit,\u201d he said. \u201cYeah, that\u2019s a little weird,\u201d Clay said.<\/p>\n

Rosario chewed on his empanada. \u201cTo be honest,\u201d he added, \u201cI think my union at first didn\u2019t support Mamdani.\u201d (Clay noted that this was true: his union had initially endorsed Cuomo.) \u201cSometimes they make mistakes,\u201d Rosario said. Clay replied, \u201cMamdani could make a mistake, too.\u201d Rosario said that he was going to do some research on Valdez, \u201cjust to give her a fair shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clay remained upbeat. \u201cIt sounds like we have two really good candidates!\u201d she said. \u201cIt sounds like we\u2019re really lucky as a district. Considering what\u2019s going on in the country, we are some of the luckiest people, right? It sounds like we can\u2019t lose.\u201d\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

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