The progressive wing of the Democrat Party just seized another U.S. Senate nomination, and this time the winner openly declared she will not support Chuck Schumer as Senate leader if she reaches Capitol Hill. Meanwhile a long-time Democrat congressman fell to a radical upstart, marking the seventh loss for an incumbent this season. And even in the one big “loss” for the DSA on election night, they actually won by shedding the candidate with so much baggage that even AOC and Bernie Sanders refused to back her.
Buckle up. The Schumer-Pelosi era of Democrat politics is crashing hard into reality.
Minnesota Senate Progressive Victory Leaves Schumer Exposed
In Minnesota, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan crushed moderate Rep. Angie Craig by nearly 20 points to claim the Democratic nomination for the open Senate seat. Flanagan, a progressive fighter backed by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, now heads into the general election against Republican Michele Tafoya.
Craig had the money and the establishment machine behind her. Schumer’s fingerprints were on her campaign. Yet Minnesota Democrats chose the left. Flanagan has made her position crystal clear: “We need a progressive champion to lead Senate Democrats, and that’s not Chuck Schumer.”
This is the second major Senate primary hit for Schumer in a week. Last Tuesday progressive Abdul El-Sayed narrowly defeated Schumer-backed Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan. The pattern is no longer deniable. The party’s left flank is not asking for a seat at the table. They are taking the table.
Fox News called it another blow to the Senate minority leader. The New York Post noted Flanagan ran on the same progressive priorities that powered El-Sayed, including Medicare for All and cutting off U.S. support for Israel.
A house divided against itself cannot stand. Jesus said it plainly in Matthew 12:25. The Democrat Party is living it out in real time.
Seventh Incumbent Falls in Connecticut
In Connecticut’s 1st District, former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin defeated 14-term Rep. John Larson by double digits. Larson, 78, has been in Congress since the 1990s. Bronin, 47 and a retired Naval intelligence officer, ran on generational change and won the state party endorsement.
Larson becomes the seventh House Democrat incumbent knocked out this primary season. The list already includes Al Green in Texas, Diana DeGette in Colorado, Adriano Espaillat in New York, and Shri Thanedar in Michigan. Older establishment faces are being cleared out one after another. Voters are done with the same tired names who keep losing ground to Trump and the right.
Bronin put it bluntly: “John Larson is a good man, but he’s been in Congress since the 90s. The stakes are just too high to keep doing the same thing.”
The old guard keeps insisting the party is a big tent. Primary voters keep proving the tent belongs to the radicals.
Wisconsin The DSA “Loss” That Still Counts as a Win
The one race the establishment could claim was Wisconsin’s Democratic gubernatorial primary. Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley narrowly edged out DSA member and state Rep. Francesca Hong. Crowley had the backing of retiring Gov. Tony Evers. Hong had the socialist label and a trail of toxic posts.
Those posts included calls to defund and abolish the police, plus a 2020 declaration to “Cancel Thanksgiving” because it celebrates colonialism. She walked them back under pressure, claiming Thanksgiving is now her favorite holiday. Neither AOC nor Bernie Sanders endorsed her. The baggage was too heavy even for them.
So the DSA “lost.” In reality they dodged a bullet. They avoided nominating the candidate whose own words would have handed Republicans a gift-wrapped attack ad for the general election. Crowley still has to face Trump-backed Rep. Tom Tiffany in November. The left gets to keep its purity while the moderate takes the risk of losing the statehouse.
That is not a defeat. That is strategy.
On a related note, this is the most devastating political loss I’ve ever seen for the “consensus” bettors on the markets. Until the polls closed in Wisconsin, Kalshi had Hong at nearly 100% chance of winning.
The progressive surge is real. It has already delivered Senate nominees in Michigan and Minnesota who openly reject Schumer’s leadership. It has already claimed seven House seats from incumbents. And when the purest socialist option came with too much baggage, the left simply let her fail so the movement could live to fight another day.
Chuck Schumer keeps talking about party unity. Primary voters keep voting the opposite. The Schumer-Pelosi machine that once dictated terms is now watching its preferred candidates get discarded. The radicals are not waiting for permission. They are taking power the old-fashioned way—by winning elections inside the party that still pretends it is moderate.
Reality has arrived. The only question left is how many more seats the old guard will lose before they finally admit it. JD Rucker will be discussing this in detail on today’s episode of the Wendy Bell Radio Program.
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