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Democrats are in big trouble because Black and Brown voters don’t want socialism

Party battles to keep minority voter support despite rise of democratic socialist candidates

By Harrison Fields Fox News

Published July 26, 2026 8:00am EDT

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The Democratic Party is being hijacked, and the people it claims to fight hardest for are the first ones bailing out.

The Democratic Socialists of America have gone from a fringe debate club to a governing faction inside the party in the span of a single election cycle. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani sits in Gracie Mansion. The organization is reportedly drafting a new platform calling for abolishing the U.S. Senate. This is not a healthcare plan. This is not a "tax the rich" bumper sticker. This is socialism, and in places its more radical wings openly flirt with communism, gaining real traction inside one of America's two governing parties. Democratic leadership is too terrified of its own base to say so out loud.

Here is what should terrify them more: the coalition they need to win national elections is not buying what the DSA is selling.

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Start with New York City, ground zero for this movement. In the June primary, Mamdani lost to Andrew Cuomo among Black voters by nearly six points citywide, and he got wiped out in Brownsville and East Flatbush, two of the city's poorest neighborhoods, where more than 60% of residents are Black.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani hugs Rep. Bernie Sanders during an address marking his first 100 days in office at the Knockdown Center, April 12, 2026, in New York. (Andres Kudacki/AP Photo)

It took Mamdani months of dedicated outreach and a general election pivot toward pocketbook issues like housing costs before he clawed........

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