Janeese Lewis George, District of Columbia council member and mayoral candidate, speaks after listening sessions at the East Washington Heights Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., Sept. 3, 2026.

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Zohran Mamdani famously brought democratic socialism to the largest U.S. city when he became New York's mayor. Now another member of the Democratic Party's progressive flank is poised to lead Washington, D.C.

Janeese Lewis George, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and a city council member, is set to become the next mayor of the nation's capital, which has been led for more than a decade by Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser.…