Washington Post: DSA-Endorsed Candidates Will Hold Eight House Seats and the Mayor's Offices in Washington, New York and Los Angeles

Status: The office counts below are the Washington Post's tally, published Wednesday. The speaker's race has not been decided. House Democrats are expected to choose their nominee later this month; the full House votes when the new Congress convenes in January.

The Post reported that candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America will hold eight seats in the U.S. House in the next Congress. It also reported that Democratic socialists will serve as mayor of Washington, D.C., and of the country's two largest cities, New York and Los Angeles, and that at least 54 DSA-endorsed state lawmakers will take office in January across 19 states. Those figures are the Post's count, not an AFNS canvass. For earlier election-night coverage of DSA-backed House newcomers, see DSA More Than Triples Its House Presence as All Five Newcomers Win.

The speaker vote

Separately, Axios reported that House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is on track to become speaker, in part because of solid support among sitting House Democrats, including high-profile progressives such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Greg Casar (D-Texas), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), and Ro Khanna (D-Calif.). "There is one candidate in this race, Hakeem Jeffries, and I think that everyone is far more concerned about what that leadership means, what is it promising," Ocasio-Cortez told reporters on Tuesday, Axios reported.

Support is less uniform among some incoming freshmen. Axios said members of an informal progressive group known as the "Bloc," including Reps.-elect Darializa Avila Chevalier (D-N.Y.), Melat Kiros (D-Colo.), Claire Valdez (D-N.Y.), Adam Hamawy (D-N.J.), and Chris Rabb (D-Pa.), have openly declined to commit to supporting Jeffries's leadership. Axios described them as incoming progressive freshmen. Not every person on that list is identified here as a DSA member.

Rep.-elect Randy Villegas (D-Calif.), whom Axios also described as a progressive, said that as far as he had heard, Jeffries was the only one running, but that "we need to see some prioritization of some legislation, particularly around health care, foreign policy and immigration." Axios also reported that plenty of other freshmen are supporting Jeffries, including some who had substantial backing from House Democrats' campaign apparatus.

For earlier interviews with incoming members who had not committed, see Some Incoming House Democrats Haven't Committed to Jeffries for Speaker, Fox News Reports.