House Democrats brace for a Mamdani-fueled "Freedom Caucus of the left" in 2027

House Democrats are preparing themselves for a caucus in 2027 that is significantly more outspoken and left-wing than the one they have now. Why it matters: It wasn't all that easy to integrate the four-member " Squad " into the Democratic fold. Now party leadership is going to have to contend with a much larger cohort of rabble rousers. Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) predicted "it will be difficult" to rein in these newly elected democratic socialists: "I think people that follow that [ideology] wi

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