The GOP victory lap imposed huge pressure on Democrats to finally step up with an effective political strategy to take on an increasingly dominant president — and to turn his achievement into an anvil.

Ex-NBC host Chuck Todd described the Democratic Party as a "collection of people that don't like Trump" during an interview on Thursday, speaking to the party's identity crisis.

Mr Trump wrote that Republicans were wrong to fear that Democrats would gain from accusing them of breaking a promise not to raise taxes. He clearly saw that raising taxes on the rich would instead make sense to his MAGA masses and also strip Democrats of one of their few remaining salient attacks.

Mamdani has appointed Jeffrey Lerner—a former top Obama White House aide and Democratic National Committee political director—as his communications chief.