House Democrat: ‘Mamdani isn’t speaking for our party’

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said connected Sunday that New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, a antiauthoritarian socialist, “isn’t speaking for our party,” though Smith stressed the “big tent” quality of the party’s coalition. “Look, the politician of New York has never, never, ever been the person of the Democratic Party,” Smith said in…