NPR News: 06-24-2026 4PM EDT

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Nora Raum· Host0:15

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rom. Several states held primaries yesterday. In New York, Mayor Zohran Mamdani successfully backed three candidates running for the U.S. House, including two who are also Democratic socialists. He told NPR the results show people want change.

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At the core of each of their candidacies is a belief that working people have to return back to the heart of our politics. You could see it's a concern for the fact that in many of these races, we see special interests looking to buy the outcomes of them. We see a federal government that is embarking on immigration policy that is cruel and does nothing to serve in the interests of public safety. And we see an exhaustion with a foreign policy that would rather invest in bombs than in babies back home in our own districts.

Nora Raum· Host1:04

In South Carolina, President Trump had endorsed both candidates who ran in the Republican primary for governor. The state Attorney General, Alan Wilson, was the winner. Nancy Lecour won the Democratic nomination for a House seat. The former Navy admiral had been fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. President Trump suddenly canceled his plans to sign bipartisan legislation intended to lower housing costs for