Rebecca Cooke, the Democrat challenging Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden in Wisconsin’s Third District, has built her campaign on being “somewhere in the middle.” But her endorsement of New York City socialist mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani raises sharp questions about that image and her political alignment.
Gov. Kathy Hochul's endorsement of socialist mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani is sparking backlash across New York, with critics saying she got little in return besides appeasing the far-left wing of her party.
