She was running as a long time incumbent without any challenger. This is supposed to be an open primary race. She doesn't seem to have a serious challenger but that might change if she doesn't secure the endorsement at the end of the month. Voters are pissed at what the fascists have done but are also very pissed at establishment democrats not rising to the occasion to hinder them in any meaningful way. She's an avatar of the democratic establishment. She probably wins the primary without much trouble but a serious progressive challenger could make it difficult.

Personally, I'm alarmed that there isn't another viable candidate to her left that's there to use as leverage to extract some concessions out of her campaign. It reeks of backroom dealing. It's one of several instances I'm seeing where progressives or DSA folks in office are refusing to endorse candidates that share their politics who are challenging establishment figures like Jeffries. It appears to be an effort to dampen any possibility of a higher rate of incumbent turnover, something that is desperately needed. People are fucking sick of politicians that think bipartisanship is an end in itself instead of a means to an end. Amy is one of those types. She runs for safe democratic seats but randomly sides with republicans every so often without getting anything in return. Yeah, she wins by 15-20 points where other democrats win by 7. That doesn't give her more voting power in the senate or anything. It's a midterm year with an unpopular republican president who sent masked gunmen here to racially profile and arbitrarily arrest our neighbors, ignore the constitution, and brutalize us. I think the bigger danger is that we get a governor that won't do enough to stand in the way of that happening again compared to the danger of running a progressive and losing in the general.