This Election Day, Democrats may be pitted against each other in more ways than one as voters head to the polls.

Not only are New York Assemblyman and Democrat nominee Zohran Mamdani and former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat running as an independent, facing off in the New York City mayoral race, but Virginia Democrat gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger is calling out Mamdani.

On the eve of the election, The Daily Caller highlighted remarks that Spanberger made to CNN.

As that report mentioned about the Virginia Democrat:

[Spanberger] argues there’s a level of dishonesty in some of the big promises Mamdani is making that she worries could hurt Democrats with voters long term, saying the reason she doesn’t have a Mamdani-style proposal for government-run grocery stores is “because I couldn’t ever pass it.”

“People do want us to be aspirational and dream big. They also don’t want us to lie to them,” she told CNN. “When you have a party that makes promise after promise, and then say, ‘Oh, we passed it in the House, it’s not our fault’—vulnerable people believed you. Maybe he is going to get [the state capital of] Albany on board with totally refinancing public transportation. But there’s a lot of people who believe him.

A former congresswoman, Spanberger flipped a Virginia congressional district blue in 2018 once held by a Republican. If she is victorious in her own election on Tuesday, and the polls suggest that she likely will be, she’ll replace Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, in the “purplish” commonwealth.

Spanberger has been portrayed to be something of a moderate. Nevertheless, the excerpt from CNN shows that Spanberger does not say she is opposed to such policies because she deems them to be too radical but because she acknowledges they can’t get passed.

Speaking about what effect Tuesday’s results may have on the 2026 midterms, The Daily Signal’s Bradley Devlin pointed out, “What we’ve seen from the American Left is a renewed embrace of radicalism.”

Spanberger’s less-than-moderate views are on display when it comes to her refusal to oppose men participating in women’s sports and entering women’s locker rooms. It’s a policy position her Republican opponent, Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, has denounced her sharply for.

Just as Spanberger is expected to win the governorship, Mamdani is expected to win his race for mayor. If he does, it will be without the support of some key Democrats, including in his home state of New York.

U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., provided a very delayed endorsement, while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has not endorsed at all. Even though he ultimately endorsed Mamdani, Jeffries is quoted in the CNN piece as saying he doesn’t think Mamdani is the future of the Democratic Party.

Eric Adams, the current Democrat mayor of New York, decided to run for reelection as an independent but dropped out of the race in late September, warning of “chaos” if Mamdani is elected.

Mamdani’s proposed policies include not only state-run grocery stores, but also “free” public transportation, as well as freezing rents and raising the minimum wage. Mamdani’s proposals for taxes involve not only wealth, but race.

There are also concerns regarding increasingly public antisemitism and opposition to Israel should Mamdani win. He has refused several opportunities to condemn the phrase “globalize the intifada” or to say Hamas should disarm.

CNN also pointed out that “many in the party are fearful of being tied to Mamdani’s democratic socialism or anti-Israel views, even as they buzz about his breakthrough communications and the passion he has inspired.”

Mamdani, a Muslim born in Uganda to parents from India, has spoken about concerns with Islamophobia. He has also been called out for posing with an imam who was supportive of those connected to the 1993 World Trade Center attacks and for falsehoods in his story in which he claimed a hijab-wearing aunt stopped riding the subway out of fear of being attacked after Sept. 11.

Republicans, meanwhile, have seen Mamdani’s likely win as an opportunity in some places. In Ohio, a political action committee supporting former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who is running in next year’s Ohio gubernatorial race, paid for billboards inviting disenchanted New Yorkers to move to the Buckeye State.

As of Tuesday afternoon, RealClearPolling shows Mamdani ahead by 14.3 percentage points in a three-way race against Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Meanwhile, Spanberger leads Earle-Sears by 10.2 in Virginia’s gubernatorial election polls.

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