Not sure how this really helps either. Seems like it would further split their votes to the benefit of el-Sayed.
Garcia, a Bexar County Sheriff's Deputy, is running for Congress in Texas's 35th Congressional District, which consists of part of San Antonio, the San Antonio suburbs, and large swaths of rural areas. The 35th district is currently represented by progressive firebrand Greg Cesar, and was safe Democratic before the redistricting made it a district that voted 55% for Trump in 2024. Cesar is now running in the safe Democratic 37th district, currently represented by another progressive firebrand, Lloyd Doggett, who is retiring.
Garcia is currently locked in a primary runoff against Maureen Galindo, a progressive outsider running a hard-left campaign. She has been endorsed by Track AIPAC, and several other Democrats who ran in this seat this year but didn't make the runoff. Galindo has run a campaign dedicated entirely to the Palestine issue, having views on the subject which cross the line from anti-zionism well into outright anti-semitism. She has notably pushed the conspiracy theory that modern-day Jews are imposters who are not the real Jewish people, similar to views pushed by anti-semitic hate groups such as the Black Hebrew Israelites, and Kanye West during his Nazi era.
Garcia, on the other hand, as you might expect of a cop, is running a much further right campaign, and has been endorsed by the avowedly conservative Blue Dog Coalition, as well as the Democratic Majority for Israel. Curiously, despite campaigning as an explicitly conservative Democrat, he has been stacking up endorsements from progressive figures in the area, including most notably from prominent members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Lloyd Doggett, Greg Cesar, and Joaquin Castro, as well as progressive pro-abortion activist and 2014 Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas Wendy Davis. With these highly touted endorsements, Garcia appears to be trying to outflank Galindo on both the left and right.
One could chock this up as an isolated incident, with progressives trying to end the Galindo problem before it starts due to her racist views, and her being a uniquely bad candidate for this conservative district, but this is not actually an isolated incident. There are at least two other candidates running for US House, Rebecca Cooke in WI03, and Bob Brooks in PA07, who have both been endorsed by the Blue Dog Coalition as well as prominent progressives including Bernie Sanders himself. Both Cooke and Brooks are running against unproblematic candidates who are further left in districts that are not all that conservative.
This type of cooperation between the Blue Dog Coalition, the modern-day continuance of the Dixiecrats and all that's left of the Democrats' rural conservative wing, and the progressives is unheard-of, and has now happened frequently enough to be a legitimate trend. Is this evidence of the Blue Dogs moving left? The progressives moving right? Both? Something else?
Alongside the primary elections for partisan officers, West Virginia held three general elections for statewide judicial offices. Two elections for Supreme Court of Appeals (state Supreme Court), and one for Intermediate Court of Appeals (the appellate court. In all three elections, incumbents appointed by Republican governors ran for reelection and lost. In the first supreme court election, an incumbent appointed by Patrick Morrisey lost reelection to Republican state legislator. In the second supreme court election, an incumbent appointed by Morrisey lost reelection to a retired circuit court judge. In the Intermediate Court of Appeals election, an incumbent appointed by Jim Justice lost reelection to a Family Court Judge from the 11th circuit.
The election that was won by the Republican state delegate is obviously a GOP hold, but the others are harder to decipher. Judicial elections in West Virginia are nonpartisan. But Kirk Kirkpatrick, the winner of the second supreme court election, was appointed to his Circuit judgeship by a Democratic governor many decades ago, and the Intermediate Court of Appeals winner was referred to as "Democratic-aligned" by another poster here, though I myself cannot independently verify that.
Regardless of the leanings of the winners, it's still extremely notable that all three incumbents lost specularly. Clearly West Virginians are not happy with their judges.