NY-11: Can a Populist Democrat Flip New York City's Only G.O.P. House Seat?

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Populist Democrats, trying to pull their struggling party toward a left-wing economic platform, are already waging high-profile campaigns in swing states from Maine to the Midwest.

Now, the anti-establishment faction is taking aim at a Republican-held House seat in one of the reddest corners of New York City.

Allison Ziogas, a first-time candidate, formally kicked off a campaign for the seat on Tuesday, leaning on her biography as a union electrician in a long-shot bid to win back voters who have abandoned her party in droves.

To help shape that message, she has tapped Morris Katz, the strategist behind several of Democrats’ most-watched progressive populists, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, and Graham Platner, a Senate candidate in Maine




https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/nyregion/ziogas-malliotakis-midterms.html