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From Wasserman Schultz to Goldman, Democratic incumbents are fighting for survival
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As Democrats seek to reclaim power in November’s midterm elections, some of the party’s long-standing progressives are in danger of losing their seats.
The warning signs are flashing red in hotly contested primaries across the country, from a longtime ally of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who is facing a challenger four decades younger, to a senior New York lawmaker seeking to fend off a Mamdani-backed opponent.
Not every race has a clear ideological divide, but every challenger is running on an anti-establishment message. Some are also advocating for generational change.
Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., are facing tough primary fights. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images; Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Though sitting lawmakers are historically difficult to defeat, a wave of anti-incumbent fever appears to be taking hold among voters. Four incumbents — including Reps. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and Thomas Massie, R-Ky. — have already lost their re-election bids to primary challengers this cycle.
The following are the progressive lawmakers who could be next.
Dan Goldman
Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., 50, a prominent Trump foe who served as Democrats’ lead counsel during President Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial, is running as an endangered incumbent in a Democratic-heavy district spanning Lower Manhattan and deep-blue pockets of Brooklyn.
Former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, 56, who has the backing of Mamdani and leading progressives in Congress, is mounting an insurgent campaign from Goldman’s left. Leading progressive Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and the left-wing Working Families Party are also supporting his candidacy.
Goldman’s endorsements from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., may not be enough to secure a third House term. Recent polling of the race shows Lander carving out a significant lead despite Goldman, who is one of the wealthiest members of Congress, outspending the progressive challenger.
Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., stands outside the Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark, New Jersey. (Rashid Umar Abbasi/Fox News Digital)
Though Goldman has faced attacks from the left, he is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC). He has also supported a bevy of far-left proposals, including the abolition of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Green New Deal legislation and Medicare-for-all. If Democrats retake power in November, he’s vowing to help lead a third impeachment of Trump.
But Israel has become a key fault line in the contest. Lander has sharply criticized the incumbent’s ties to the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC and his votes to supply Israel with military aid.
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Lander has also labeled Israel’s war in Gaza a «genocide» — a term Goldman has distanced himself from. Both men are Jewish.
Adriano Espaillat
Mamdani is also seeking to flex his political muscle in another hotly contested New York City primary that could end the career of a senior progressive lawmaker.
Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, is facing a serious challenge from upstart candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, a socialist and activist who joined Columbia University’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., of Washington Heights outside Delaney Hall, an immigration facility in Newark, N.J., on May 27, 2026. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)
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Mamdani threw a wrench into Espaillat’s re-election bid when he made the surprise decision to endorse Avila Chevalier, 32, just weeks before the primary. The move has led to fierce backlash from some of the party’s establishment, who alleged that Mamdani privately pledged to Espaillat that he would support his bid for a sixth House term, multiple outlets reported.
Espaillat, 71, is seeking to fend off a challenge from his left flank despite membership in the Congressional Progressive Caucus and his support for ICE’s dismantlement. He has also touted his background as the first former illegal immigrant elected to Congress.
Avila Chevalier has sparked controversy over since-deleted social media posts in which she voiced support for open borders, abolishing the police and called former President Joe Biden a «rapist,» according to CNN.
The deep-blue district covering parts of Upper Manhattan and the West Bronx is a progressive stronghold that swung hard for Mamdani’s mayoral campaign last year. Espaillat notably did not endorse Mamdani’s campaign until after his primary win over former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y.
Jeffries, who represents a neighboring Brooklyn district, has vowed to help give Espaillat a sixth House term.
«Adriano Espaillat has been a tremendous leader,» Jeffries told CNN on Tuesday. «He’s leading in terms of battling Donald Trump.»
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., a junior member of House Democratic leadership, is gearing up for a tough re-election fight after Republicans carved up her deep-blue seat during redistricting earlier this year.
The 11-term incumbent sparked controversy after filing to run in a plurality-Black district that has been represented by a Black lawmaker for more than three decades.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 27, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
She is expected to face four Black opponents ahead of the August primary, including former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., who is making a long-shot run for the seat after resigning amid an expulsion threat earlier this year. Cherfilus-McCormick is also facing a pending federal criminal indictment over alleged financial crimes that could result in more than 50 years in prison if convicted.
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Local Black leaders publicly urged Wasserman Schultz to run for a different seat, but she moved forward with seeking the Democratic nomination in Florida’s 20th Congressional District.
While the four Black candidates have reportedly met to discuss unifying behind one individual to take on Wasserman Schultz, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., has thus far declined to bail her out.
The leading Democrat has repeatedly stopped short of offering his endorsement when asked by reporters, despite his long track record of backing incumbents. Jeffries has issued effusive praise for Wasserman Schultz’s record in Congress but signaled his concern that the incumbent’s victory could potentially decrease Black representation in Congress.
«I think we all recognize the sensitivities of the moment in terms of an unprecedented Jim Crow-like assault on Black political representation that has been unleashed by the Supreme Court’s outrageous decision to gut the Voting Rights Act,» Jeffries said during a news conference earlier in June when asked about Wasserman Schultz’s candidacy. «And it’s an environment that all of us need to be sensitive to as we move forward.»
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries speaks during a press conference on Capitol Hill on November 3, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)
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Doris Matsui
Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., advanced to November’s general election after surviving California’s top-two primary system last week, but her leftist challenger received a higher share of the vote.
Mai Vang, 41, a progressive Sacramento city councilmember campaigning on generational change, is seeking to unseat Matsui, 81, who is twice her age. As of Thursday, Vang outperformed Matsui by one percentage point in the primary contest.
Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Calif., stands with actress Patricia Arquette, then-House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Lois Frankel during a «When Women Succeed, America Succeeds» discussion at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 13, 2016. (Kris Connor/Getty Images)
The Democratic candidates will face off for the Democratic-leaning district in November after shutting out the single Republican in the race.
Matsui has represented the Sacramento-anchored district for more than two decades and has never faced a serious primary challenger prior to Vang. Her husband, Robert Matsui, previously represented the seat for roughly 25 years prior to his death in 2005.
Matsui has long allied herself with Pelosi, who endorsed her reelection campaign for a 12th House term. She has also donated to her campaign.
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Vang is endorsed by the progressive, anti-incumbent organization Justice Democrats and Our Revolution, a group formed by Sanders staffers after his failed 2016 presidential campaign.
She faced scrutiny during the primary contest after videos surfaced of her refusing to face the American flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance during city council meetings.
Al Green
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, one of Trump’s most vocal critics in Congress, lost his bid for a 12th House term in May.
Green, 78, came up short in a Democratic primary runoff election for a Houston-area district against Rep. Christian Menefee, D-Texas, 38. The two incumbents faced off for a Democratic-heavy district after Republicans’ redistricting efforts effectively forced both men to compete for the same seat.
Menefee, who was first elected to Congress in February, is seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party and ran on a message of new leadership.
Rep. Al Green, D-Texas, speaks at a press conference after joining «Remove the Regime» protesters marching from Union Station to the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 20, 2025. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
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Green faced widespread backlash over disrupting Trump’s addresses to Congress two years in a row. After his outburst toward the president during a 2025 speech, Green was formally censured by Congress in a bipartisan vote.
Green has also repeatedly tried to impeach Trump. His most recent impeachment attempts since Trump retook office in 2025 were scuttled in part by Democratic opposition.
Trump mocked Green after his primary loss in a post on Truth Social.
«Congratulations to the Dumocrat Party!» Trump wrote. «Al Green, one of the most mentally deficient Congressmen in the history of our Country, has lost, in a landslide, his seat in Congress — but I will miss that lunatic not screaming and violently waving his cane at me during my next State of the Union Speech.»
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Exposed Fauci diary shows he estimated COVID-19 death rate to be much lower than what he told Congress
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Entries from early 2020 in a now-exposed personal diary kept by Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic show that he privately estimated the death rate from the illness was significantly lower than what he told Congress under oath only weeks later.
Fauci, 85, has come under intense scrutiny for years regarding his approach leading the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, and his alleged links to the Chinese lab where the virus originated. He will return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee to speak about his newly publicized personal records.
«The stated mortality over all of this when you look at all the data including China is about three percent. It first started off as two and three,» Fauci said in testimony before the House Oversight Committee on March 11, 2020, according to a transcript of the hearing.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci prepares to testify before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee about the ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on November 4, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Senators questioned Fauci and other witnesses about the approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for children between 5 and 11 years old this week. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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During the hearing just weeks into the virus reaching the U.S., he was asked by Rep. Michael Cloud, R-Texas, to compare the mortality from COVID-19 to the mortality of the seasonal flu.
«I think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection, that probably brings the mortality rate down to somewhere around one percent, which means it is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu,» Fauci continued. «I think that is something that people can get their arms around and understand.»
But on Feb. 8, 2020, about a month before that congressional testimony, Fauci expressed privately that he believed the virus’s mortality rate was much lower than what he later told lawmakers.
«[Former CDC Director] Tom Frieden called me this AM and we discussed various aspects of the outbreak,» Fauci wrote. «He and I are on the same page in thinking tht [sic] this is acting like a bad influenza in its transmissibility and that the denominator is much greater than 34,867 (above) making the case fatality rate (CFR) more like 0.2-0.3 % rather than 2.0%.»
Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., on June 3, 2024. The hearing covers findings from a 15-month Republican-led probe into Fauci and the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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At that time, Fauci had counted 34,687 cases of the virus and 724 fatalities, according to his diary, which equals just over 0.2%.
Fauci was the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) during the pandemic, and first became the face of combatting COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic during President Donald Trump’s first term, and remained in the role under President Joe Biden until retiring in 2022.
The very influential position wasn’t lost on Fauci. His diary entries tracked his rising influence and press appearances, and he meticulously kept track of how he was portrayed.
«Big front page article abut me appeared in the Washington Post. Very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable,» he wrote in a diary entry on May 21, 2020.
«It is not hyoperbole [sic] to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable peson in the world,» he continued.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, throws out the ceremonial first pitch before the game between the New York Yankees and Washington Nationals at Nationals Park on July 23, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images)
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Fauci noted that he was developing a «very unique and interesting relationship» with Trump.
His diary is adorned with screenshots of headlines that mentioned him, including a New York Times story from March 2020 titled, «Not His First Pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci Sticks to the Facts.»
He referenced another Washington Post article in his diary on Aug. 8, 2020, titled, «As Fauci battles the pandemic and politics, his grateful neighbors celebrate him as a hero.»
Dr. Anthony Fauci, former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, is sworn-in before testifying before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic at the Rayburn House Office Building on June 3, 2024, in Washington, D.C. The Subcommittee is holding a hearing on the findings from a 15-month Republican-led probe of former Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci and the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Fox News Digital reached out to Georgetown University and the Georgetown University Department of Public Health, where Fauci serves as a distinguished professor at the university’s school of medicine, seeking comment on the journal entries versus public statements.
Fox News Digital also reached out to Paul’s office but did not hear back by time of publication.
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Uruguay puso en marcha los patrullajes con blindados militares en los barrios de mayor criminalidad de Uruguay
Vehículos militares comenzaron a patrullar los barrios con mayores niveles de criminalidad en Uruguay. El primer día de tarea el equipo tuvo un problema: quedó fuera de servicio por ajustes técnicos tras su primera recorrida. Este domingo, el vehículo Cóndor ya había vuelto a patrullar el barrio Marconi de Montevideo.
El viernes, el Ministerio del Interior había presentado uno de los vehículos blindados tipo Cóndor que serán incorporados a los operativos de seguridad pública y al patrullajes de zonas definidas como de “mayor complejidad” por las autoridades.
El ministro Carlos Negro explicó que viernes que la incorporación de estos blindados fortalece “la protección de la ciudadanía” y la “seguridad de los funcionarios policiales”, según la información divulgada por Presidencia de la República. “Lo que queremos es, por un lado, la protección de los vecinos con mayores recursos materiales y, por otro, la protección de los funcionarios policiales que llegan a las zonas más complejas”, expresó el jerarca.
Esta unidad fue decida por el Ministerio de Defensa Nacional y es parte de un total de cuatro vehículos que se desplegarán progresivamente en la capital uruguaya.
El peso del vehículo es de 9.000 kilos, según informó el director general de Operaciones Especiales, Jorge González. Está pensado para que sea utilizado en tareas de patrullaje preventivo, en el traslado seguro de efectivos y en la respuesta a situaciones de enfrentamientos armados
“La idea es proteger a los ciudadanos, concurrir a lugares de enfrentamientos armados y tener una protección adecuada para nuestros propios policías”, señaló González.
El Cóndor fue equipado con cámaras y una tecnología adicional que mejora la visibilidad en el entorno y facilita la conducción durante los operativos, según la comunicación oficial. Los choferes debieron completaron una capacitación específica de tres semanas en el Batallón de Florida, a unos 100 kilómetros de la capital uruguaya.
Los capacitados fueron un total de 19 efectivos.
El primer vehículo ya está operativo, pero hubo un problema en su primer día.
Según informó Montevideo Portal, el primer blindado sufrió varias fallas mecánicas y quedó fuera de servicio en menos de 24 horas de haber comenzado a utilizarse. Una de las fallas fue la rotura de una manguera. Esto motivó algunos cuestionamientos de parte de la oposición.
“Así gobiernan. Son un libreto de murga no divertido. Cantinflas no lo haría nunca mejor. País roto”, escribió el senador Sebastián Da Silva, integrante del opositor Partido Nacional. “Cerrá y vamos”, criticó el presidente de esa fuerza política, Álvaro Delgado.
Tras esta controversia política, el Ministerio del Interior informó que el vehículo Cóndor “se encuentra plenamente operativo y realizando tareas de patrullaje en la zona oeste de Montevideo”.
Está previsto que los otros tres blindados sean incorporados de forma paulatina, a medida que finalicen los trabajos de mantenimiento. “Esperamos que en el correr de agosto estén prontos los otros tres vehículos”, declaró el ministro.
El despliegue diario o para operativos específicos será definido por la Policía Nacional, según las necesidades que haya.
El presidente de la República, Yamandú Orsi, había anunciado el 22 de junio la nueva medida de seguridad. “A partir de un encuentro con los ministros de Defensa, Interior y Economía resolvimos redoblar el combate contra el crimen organizado. Para esto direccionamos la infraestructura de seguridad del país a este fin”, expresó.
Después, el ministro descartó que esta medida signifique una militarización de las calles de Montevideo y el área metropolitana. “Si hay algo que teníamos previsto era despejar cualquier duda que se pudiera generar con ese tipo de términos. Solamente se trata de contar con infraestructura que posibilite en una coyuntura específica y una circunstancia especial que el Ministerio del Interior tenga los vehículos apropiados para patrullar, con sus funcionarios”, dijo el secretario de Estado.
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