Washington Examiner senior columnist Guy Benson warned about far-left candidates taking over Democratic cities.
Benson said he believes it’s the cities and Democratic Party shifting further left, not the country, but argued the midterm elections will test that theory, pointing to the U.S. Senate races in Maine and Michigan as examples
“Can these types of people win in a tinted blue year across a non-hardcore blue electorate?” Benson said on Fox Business’s The Bottom Line on Thursday. “I guess we’ll find out.”
Benson said the D.C. mayoral race shows a city becoming more progressive, with a socialist leading the primary race in the nation’s capital.
After serving three terms, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser decided not to seek reelection, leading to a competitive Democratic Primary.
Councilwoman Janeese Lewis George won the nomination after former Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie conceded on Thursday.
Benson said Bowser isn’t a good mayor, but argued that Lewis George replacing her is worse.
“[Bowser] isn’t good, but she’s at least relatively sane compared to the city councilwoman, who she would butt heads with sometimes and [Bowser] was relatively moderate,” Benson said. “[Bowser] decided she was done with all this, and the woman who is now going to replace her is a member of said lunatic city council, as one of the most left-wing members of it.”
Benson advised people living in blue cities to not complain about their Democratic mayors, warning it could get worse with far-left candidates who replace them.
“I’ve been warning — not my typical, cheerful self — that in some of these cities, where there are bad mayors, I’ve been warning it can always get worse,” Benson said. “In New York, and in Chicago, and in Seattle, and now Washington, D.C., it is getting worse.”
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Benson said progressive candidates who want to “stick it to the establishment” could hurt the Democrats in the future, but now voters are embracing them.
“Right now you’re seeing the far left expanding and flexing its muscle and appealing to young people,” Benson said.