Mamdani SWEEPS!

Last night's New York primaries were a political earthquake, and the aftershocks are still being measured. The Mamdani machine didn't just win — it swept. Darializa Avila Chevalier, a 32-year-old community organizer, knocked out five-term Rep. Adriano Espaillat. Brad Lander beat incumbent Dan Goldman. Claire Valdez took NY-7. Cait Conley won NY-17 despite Republican meddling.

The candidates Hakeem Jeffries backed lost.

The establishment left — the Goldman wing, the Espaillat machine, the donors who thought they could hold the line — lost badly. The progressive movement that coalesced around Mamdani's mayoral win has now extended its reach into congressional races, and it did so with a coalition of working-class voters, renters, immigrants, and young people that everyone said couldn't hold together past one election. They were wrong.

The clearest sign that Tuesday's New York primaries landed hard? Stephen Miller went on Fox News to have a public breakdown about it. When the architect of MAGA's cruelty is visibly rattled by democratic socialists winning congressional primaries, that is not a sign of a movement in trouble — that is a sign of a movement that just drew blood.

Also on the progressive win sheet: an admiral fired in Hegseth's military purge won her Democratic primary in South Carolina, setting up a midterm race against a Republican incumbent. And Jack Schlossberg — JFK's grandson, the establishment's sentimental favorite — failed to advance in the race to replace Jerry Nadler.

The Democratic Party establishment did not have a good Tuesday night.

Note: if you missed it, check out our Substack post on Mamdani’s big night.

The Reflecting Pool disaster keeps getting worse, and Trump keeps making it worse by talking about it. Leaked government documents contradict his vandalism claims. A contractor confirmed the pool won't be ready for July 4.

Trump claimed six people were arrested for damaging it — a claim that, like the size of the "gash" in the liner, keeps shifting. Even a lame-duck Republican senator, Thom Tillis, is publicly mocking the president over it.

Into this chaos walks "Regime Change," the new book by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, and it is not kind. We're getting Trump's erratic sleep schedule, his fearful isolation, aides whispering behind his back, and his plan to put a giant fist on a national arch in Washington. The vanity is pathological. The instability is documented. This book will drive the news cycle for days, and every excerpt is going to confirm what the left has been saying since 2016.

Separately: reporting that Eli Lilly approved an obesity drug for a mystery 79-year-old patient has the White House furious . Trump's health is a story they cannot contain.

Lesley Groff, hired by Jeffrey Epstein in 2001, told lawmakers she personally arranged phone calls between Trump and Epstein over the years, describing their relationship as "friendly." The testimony landed the same week the DOJ issued subpoenas to national security reporters at two major newspapers — subpoenas that were then quickly withdrawn after blowback.

The administration that promised to release the Epstein files is now subpoenaing the journalists covering them.

Since our last briefing, Tucker Carlson — who announced days ago he was done with the Republican Party — has now gone further, revealing which Democrat he says Trump is "very convinced" could win in 2028.

What matters: Carlson is now actively shaping the 2028 conversation from outside the GOP tent, and Trump's camp is apparently worried enough about a specific Democrat that they're talking about it. The View was unimpressed with Carlson's party exit, predicting he'll be back. They're probably right. But in the meantime, he's a useful source of what MAGA actually fears.