Democratic New York City Council candidate and former Rep. Anthony Weiner failed on Tuesday in his bid to return to the political scene after a career plagued by scandal. Weiner was running against a menagerie of opponents in New York’s 2nd City Council district Democratic primary,

All 51 seats on the City Council will be up for grabs in November, and in nearly every district, there are multiple candidates competing in Democratic primaries. Eight races are for open seats, and the themes of many of these contests mirror the battles playing out at the mayoral level, with affordability a key issue.

Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive winner of yesterday’s New York City mayoral primary, might provide some of the answers—to a point. Mamdani, a 33-year-old, relatively unknown state assemblyman, ran an invigorated,