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The Democratic Party is having a reckoning around what it actually means to be a “big tent,” and Zohran Mamdani’s candidacy for New York City mayor is at the center of the debate.

The party’s big tent approach is “one of our greatest strengths. But, if we allow extremist views — like those of democratic socialists — into the tent, it will blow right over,” Rep. Josh Gottheimer wrote last week in an opinion piece referencing Mamdani by name.

That position has frustrated some of Gottheimer’s Democratic colleagues, who say that attempting to police w

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