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Election News Digest: June 20 [1]
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Date: 2025-06-20
These centrist women in a group chat are leading Democrats in 2025 They jumped into politics in President Donald Trump’s first term. They ascended to Congress with similar résumés. They text all the time in a group chat. Now Abigail Spanberger, Mikie Sherrill and Elissa Slotkin are all playing leading roles for the Democratic Party — a trio of centrist women with national security backgrounds who helped retake the House in 2018 and this year hope to steer their beleaguered party back toward winning. Spanberger, 45, had already clinched the Democratic nomination for governor of Virginia heading into Tuesday’s primaries. She and 53-year-old Sherrill, the gubernatorial nominee in New Jersey, will lead Democrats on the ballot in the marquee races of 2025, testing the party’s ability to rebuild in Trump’s second term. Slotkin, a 48-year-old freshman senator from Michigan, was tapped to rebut Trump’s address to Congress on behalf of her party this year — and will soon start rolling out a “war plan” to beat Trump, as Democrats search for leaders. www.washingtonpost.com/...
Divergent focuses for Cuomo, Mamdani in the NYC mayoral race’s final sprint NEW YORK — The final, frenzied sprint in New York City’s Democratic primary for mayor featured Andrew Cuomo homing in on Zohran Mamdani’s refusal to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” and Mamdani blasting the millions of dollars Michael Bloomberg has poured into a pro-Cuomo super PAC. In campaign stops Thursday, the rivals both name-checked the billionaire former mayor, who has contributed $8.3 million to the pro-Cuomo PAC in an effort to blunt Mamdani’s momentum. Mamdani slammed the spending as an affront to democracy. Cuomo praised Bloomberg for taking a stand. www.politico.com/...
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