There are lots of reasons to watch the NYC Democratic primary this week. It will be another opportunity to see whether rank-choice voting moderates who emerges out of a party’s primary. It is also just amusing to see the consternation that the primary seems to be eliciting among Democratic Party elites:

“Centrist Democrats are sounding the alarm that a surging democratic socialist mayoral candidate in New York City’s Tuesday primary could further set back the party’s already beleaguered national brand.”

This no doubt explains why James E. Clyburn and Bill Clinton have endorsed Cuomo, and why Bloomberg is throwing a lot of money into the race. Interestingly, as far as I am aware, Hillary Clinton has not endorsed Cuomo. Is that a sign?

Most importantly, if Cuomo wins, as is expected, it won’t necessarily be because of Bloomberg’s money. Cuomo does have significant union support that has also been driving his ground game.