Networks Downplay Anti-Jew Socialists Winning in NYC, Insist It’s Not a National Trend

Curtis Houck
June 24th, 2026 3:14 PM

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On Wednesday, the broadcast networks covered on their flagship morning newscasts Tuesday’s results from the New York primary election that saw the far-left, Jew-hating socialists go three-for-three in contested races for House seats (and a State Assembly candidate who has gushed over 9/11). However, they sanitized this takeover of the Democrat Party as only in the Big Apple, and their support for eradicating Jews and Israel as believing “the U.S. relationship with Israel needs to be rethought.”

A supposed bastion of pro-Israel and MAGA programming, CBS Mornings was the newscast that delivered this wild understatement.

It was cued up by fill-in co-host Matt Gutman boating of “a big win for progressive left” and proof New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani “is emerging, obviously, as a kingmaker, at least here in New York...with a remarkable influence on voters,” so he wanted to know what “this Democratic socialist sweep tells us about Democratic Party future[.]”

Without verbally naming any of the candidates, O’Keefe argued these socialist candidates are confined to New York City because Mamdani has not yet used his “incredible sway over New York City voters...outside the city.”

He then alluded to the real (and only actual) difference between Mamdani’s picks and those they vanquished, which is believing the Jews have been committing a “genocide” in the Middle East. Non-compliance with that, he argued, is “disqualifying” in the eyes of many Democratic voters:

[T]hey reflect, however, something that the Democratic Party is going to have a big conversation about in the coming years, especially as they get ready to nominate someone for president. And that is what exactly did Israel do in the wake of the October 7 attacks? Was it genocide? Or was it something else? Because for a growing number of far-left Democratic voters, it is genocide, and unless the candidate is saying that, it is a disqualifying characteristic[.]

O’Keefe insisted, however, that trashing Israel “won’t be a factor in every race across the country, and Democrats certainly aren’t nominating socialists everywhere else,” such as New York’s 17th Congressional District with Democrat “Cait Conley, an Army combat veteran.”

“The issue for her will be Republicans are going to run ads saying that she associate herself with the socialists in New York City, or does she represent you,” he continued.

Putting aside the Israel part, O’Keefe said the booting of incumbents for these individuals was proof voters “are sick of the status quo” and thus demand “a different kind of politics.”

Speaking moments later to co-host and Democratic donor Gayle King, O’Keefe doubled down by claiming “[n]ot necessarily the socialism part,” but candidates who believe “Washington needs to be shooken up, that the U.S. relationship with Israel needs to be rethought, those kinds of themes[.]”

As our friend Breca Stroll of the Daily Wire wrote about two such candidates, Darializa Avila Chevalier and Claire Valdez (click “expand”): https://www.dailywire.com/news/mamdanis-socialists-upset-incumbent-dems-in-house-primary-sweep

Valdez has called for abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, expanding universal healthcare, increasing taxes on higher earners, and strengthening labor unions. Chevalier has advocated abolishing police, prisons, and national borders.

Mamdani’s endorsement of Chevalier drew scrutiny after several of Chevalier’s past social media posts resurfaced. In one post, she wrote, “I forgot to get napkins so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.” Her former X biography also listed her location as “Lenapehoking (NYC),” a reference to the ancestral homeland of the Lenape people.

Mamdani said he had not seen the controversial posts before endorsing Chevalier but stood by his decision after they became public.

As for the other, Brad Lander, our pals at Townhall noted on Tuesday he “supports abolishing ICE, expanding the Supreme Court, social and public housing, Medicare for All, universal childcare, the Green New Deal, and wealth taxes.”

Something O’Keefe and his competitors at ABC and NBC also failed to mention was that Chevalier stated last week she opposed deportations for all illegal immigrants, even if they’re hardened, convicted murderers.

While at Columbia University, Chevalier ran her school’s Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) chapter, CU Apartheid Divest that, in a social media post, declared itself as committed to “fighting for the total eradication of western civilization” and sough “community and instruction from militants in the Global South.”

One of the few good journalists at CNN, Andrew Kaczynski wrote on June 1 that Chevalier has “deleted a previous Twitter account that included thousands of posts and reposts expressing support for abolishing police, prisons and borders, as well as seizing private property and nationalizing major industries and calling into question Israel’s right to exist.”

ABC’s Good Morning America at least mentioned two of them by name.

Co-host Michael Strahan was cartoonishly vague: “And we’re going to go now to results coming in from high-stakes primaries. Some of the most closely-watched contests were here in New York for seats in Congress, and it was a big night for Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the candidates he backed.”

Correspondent Jay O’Brien bragged of “[a] big night for New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani taking on the Democratic establishment, putting his political influence on the line and helping hand-picked candidates get to primary wins that now call into question the ideological future of the Democratic Party itself.”

Before name-checking Chevalier and Lander, O’Brien simply said the winning candidates “ran to the left of their Democratic opponents” and the latter defeating incumbent Congressman Dan Goldman by running a campaign “focused around the war in Gaza, and Goldman’s support for Israel.”

Like O’Keefe, he tried to have his cake and eat it too by promoting the far-left energy while insisting it shouldn’t be confused with Democrats nationwide (click “expand”):

O’BRIEN: After last night, Mamdani endorsement clear — its weight of it clear in New York City, but it’s unclear exactly how far his influence extends beyond deep blue New York City. For instance, in swing districts, Democrats need to flip those if they want to take back the House come November, voters are opting, in many cases for more moderate choices like tapping combat veteran Cait Conley last night to face off against New York Republican Congressman Mike Lawler. That race, come the fall, is going to be critical, Robin.

ROBIN ROBERTS: We’ll see what — that happens ahead.

NBC’s Today thought they could do their fellow lefties a solid by almost ignoring the results completely. The show only had a 25-second news brief with co-host Savannah Guthrie not even mentioning Israel or a candidate by name:

Now to those closely watched primary races here in New York City. It was a big night for Mayor Zohran Mamdani. All three of the congressional candidates he endorsed were victorious, a resounding show of force for the Democratic socialist leader, massive blow for establishment Democrats. Jack Sclsossberg — the 33-year-old grandson of former President John F. Kennedy — failed in his bid to win a congressional seat in Manhattan.

To see the relevant transcripts from June 24, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).

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