Andre Easton, a high school teacher campaigning for Democrat Ritchie Torres’ seat in the Bronx’s 15th Congressional District, isn’t usually approached by strangers in the grocery store. But recently, at the same place he’s been shopping for years, a young employee stopped him and said, “Aren’t you running for something?”
She had seen a poster in the neighborhood with his picture on it, along with eye-catching colors and graphic fonts not dissimilar to those used by mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s wildly successful campaign that thrust the term “socialism” back into the political mainstream.
