Ritchie Torres won his Bronx congressional primary decisively with approximately 24,000 votes, and Hayes is arguing that the Democratic establishment cannot dismiss these low-turnout results as meaningless — they reflect real voter preference even at smaller scale. The exact vote totals for other candidates (Chevalier, Valdez, Lander) cannot be independently confirmed from available reporting, though their primary wins are verified. Hayes's broader point is that low primary turnout doesn't invalidate the legitimacy of the results or what they signal about Democratic voters in these districts.