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Election News Digest: June 12 [1]

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Date: 2025-06-12

Mamdani surges in new poll, leading Cuomo for first time in New York mayor’s race NEW YORK — Zohran Mamdani, the young democratic socialist who has been rising in the mayor’s race, is now ahead of Andrew Cuomo with just two weeks until the Democratic primary, a new poll reviewed in full by POLITICO found. The survey, conducted by Public Policy Polling for Democrat Justin Brannan’s city comptroller campaign, found Mamdani beating Cuomo 35 percent to 31 percent — a difference that is narrowly within the 4.1 percent margin of error. www.politico.com/...

Iowa Democrats see signs of optimism for 2026 despite state’s hard-right turn Tom Vilsack won the Iowa governorship in 1998 by telling voters that it was “time to rotate the crops” and cast off three decades of Republican rule. Now some Democrats are reviving that sentiment as they make a new pitch to make gains in a state that has shifted sharply to the right in recent years. rollcall.com/...

Meet 11 House candidates — or potential ones — who don’t fit the mold ANALYSIS — In the face of all the news about Donald Trump, Gavin Newsom, riots in Los Angeles, budgets, military parades and potential Medicaid cuts, it might be easy to forget that the biggest looming political battle of the cycle is the fight for the House majority. And while some people consider 2025 to be an “off year,” many key House races have already begun, and each party could have a handful of hopefuls who don’t fit neatly into the congressional candidate box. rollcall.com/...

Hannah Pingree, daughter of Maine congresswoman, enters race for governor The race to be the next governor of Maine now includes the children of two members of the state’s congressional delegation. Former Maine House Speaker Hannah Pingree, the daughter of Rep. Chellie Pingree, launched a bid for governor Tuesday, joining businessman Angus King III, the namesake son of the state’s junior senator, in a crowded Democratic primary. rollcall.com/...

Iowa governor signs law changing election recount procedures On June 2, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) signed House File 928 into law, which limits who can request election recounts and establishes that the state will pay for them. info.ballotpedia.org/...

Nebraska group seeks to turn state’s 12-week abortion ban into total one LINCOLN — Last year, Nebraska voters approved putting a ban on abortions after the first trimester into the state constitution, with exceptions for the life of the mother, rape and incest, instead of adopting a competing proposal that would have left the decision between a woman and her “treating health care practitioner.” It was a unique choice for Nebraska voters, as the only state where voters faced opposing abortion-related proposals in 2024. Nebraska joined two other states, Florida and South Dakota, in rejecting ballot initiatives seeking to expand abortion rights since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, a ruling that governed reproductive rights for nearly half a century. But an anti-abortion group is trying to push harder with a new ballot initiative for 2026 seeking to ban abortion outright with no exceptions. Choose Life Now is trying again after failing to get enough signatures for a similar ballot initiative in 2024. nebraskaexaminer.com/...

Business owner Owen McCarthy launches GOP bid for governor Owen McCarthy, a business owner from Gorham, is the latest Republican to announce plans to seek his party's nomination for governor. McCarthy grew up in Patten and studied engineering at the University of Maine. He then earned an MBA from Harvard Business School before eventually co-founding MedRhythms, a Portland-based company that is developing technology to help individuals with neurologic injuries improve their mobility. He recently served on the University of Maine System board of trustees www.mainepublic.org/...

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