Buffalo, Boston and the progressive run on mayoral elections

Democratic socialist India Walton shocked her party’s establishment when she bested four-term incumbent Byron Brown in this city’s June mayoral primary. Now the insurgent left is fighting to hold on to their biggest victory this year — and get other mayoral hopefuls across the finish line in a series of progressive-versus-moderate clashes across the country.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and former Ohio congressional hopeful Nina Turner have stumped for Walton in recent weeks as she tries to fend off a comeback from Brown, a centrist who’s waging a write-in campaign...