This is absolutely correct, just observe how both parties attack Zohran Mamdani in spite of his wild popularity

The wild popularity of... checks... getting 56% of ranked-choice votes (44% of first place votes) in a Democratic Party primary in one of the most reliably Democratic cities in the US.

	▲	an0malous 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes exactly. It doesn’t matter that it’s a democratic city because, as you said, it was the democratic primary so every candidate was a democrat.