Voters are weird. They do things like vote for Donald Trump, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani. They fixate on the endorsement of one City Council member. Or they go from being completely committed to Mamdani in the summer of 2025 to not even realizing there’s an election in 2026. All this to say, their behavior is hard to predict. But all across New York, they’re the ones deciding races today, before the polls close at 9 p.m. So join us as we track and react to the candidates and voters on this steamy 2026 primary election day.
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