The Next Mayor of Washington, D.C., Could Be a Socialist
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 16 June 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:25.6 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. Is Washington, D.C. about to get its first |
| 0:34.3 | socialist mayor? That's the question Tuesday as voters in the nation's |
| 0:38.4 | capital go to the primary polls. And as President Trump warns that the federal government is |
| 0:43.5 | ultimately in charge of D.C. and could always step in if things go awry. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson |
| 0:50.3 | with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues on the W.J.'s opinion pages, |
| 0:56.2 | columnist Joe Sternberg and Kim Strassel. The mayor of Washington, D.C., since 2015, has been |
| 1:03.4 | Muriel Bowser, and while I would not call it exactly a well-run city, Bowser has bowed to |
| 1:09.3 | reality in certain ways, including last year, acknowledging |
| 1:13.2 | that the surge of federal law enforcement in D.C. had helped reduce crime and calling for a |
| 1:20.2 | reversal in an increase in the tipped minimum wage when that was having an impact on the city's |
| 1:26.3 | restaurants. |
| 1:29.7 | But she's not running for another term. |
| 1:33.4 | Joe, give us a sense of the candidates who are now on the ballot in Tuesday's Democratic primary to replace Bowser. |
| 1:37.1 | And the winner of that, of course, |
| 1:38.9 | is probably going to be the next mayor, |
| 1:40.6 | just given the partisan makeup of the city. |
| 1:43.2 | This has ended up being a really interesting race, because as you're seeing in a bunch of |
| 1:47.5 | other major cities around the country, it has become a democratic primary between a candidate |
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