The Working Families Party is celebrating a string of major victories in competitive primaries across the country.

• Adelita Grijalva, who the WFP backed early and spent $225,000 to support, cruised to victory in the AZ-7 special election
• WFP-endorsed mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani shocked the political establishment by landsliding ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo. The Working Families IE and its allies cumulatively spent $2 million in support of Zohran and its slate of candidates.
• The WFP won mayoral primaries in three Upstate New York cities: Sean Ryan in Buffalo, Sharon Owens in Syracuse, and Dorcey Applyrs in Albany.
• In New Jersey, the WFP ended the state’s corrupt “county line” system. Insurgent Assembly candidate Katie Brennan (District 32) ran against the county party incumbents with WFP support and won. 
• In Ohio, all five of the WFP’s endorsed candidates won their primaries: Mounir Lynch and Dr. Antoinette Miranda for the Columbus City School Board; Ajmeri Hoque for Franklin County Municipal Court; Jesse Vogel for Columbus City Council; and Fran Wilson for Akron City Council.
• WFP school board candidates won across Oregon, even helping to flip a school in Redmond in rural Oregon

“People are tired of a status quo that isn’t working for them. They’re tired of politicians who are disconnected from the pressures that working people are facing every day,” said Maurice Mitchell, National Director of the Working Families Party. “Working people want leaders who will stand up and fight—not roll over and play dead. And those are the kinds of leaders the WFP is working to elect.”

The WFP just announced its endorsement of Amie Baca-Oehlert in CO-8 and Randy Villegas in CA-22. They plan to roll out more Congressional endorsements in the coming months.

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