At its biennial convention, the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America set its list of legislative and political priorities through 2028.
The Democratic Socialists of America’s New York City convention on Saturday arrived at a moment of heady promise for the group.
The chapter has nearly tripled its size since Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign. Members knocked on doors and canvassed sidewalks to send two more D.S.A. members to Congress and half a dozen new members to the State Legislature, where they are expected to push to raise taxes on the rich.
But New York’s D.S.A. chapter now faces a set of prickly questions about how to use its newfound local influence to change the priorities of city government, and whether to put its national influence to the test by running a candidate for president.
The resolutions debated by more than 400 delegates in a Midtown Manhattan office building were designed to set the political and legislative priorities for the next two years.
D.S.A. members debated nine resolutions, whittled down from a longer list of roughly 100 that had been submitted leading up to the event.
The highest-profile vote, whose outcome came as little surprise, was a resolution encouraging Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat, to run for president in 2028, which passed by a margin of 291 to 123. The resolution was not an official endorsement, but it made clear that the local chapter would push her candidacy, much as it did her long-shot bid for the House in 2018.
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