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Council Member John Liu said he credits the UFT with helping him enter a runoff in the comptroller race.

Winners in yesterday’s primary elections dropped in on a UFT Delegate Assembly this afternoon, where I am hanging out, waiting for the contract negotiation news.

Council Members Bill de Blasio and John Liu, who are both heading into runoffs in their respective races, for public advocate and comptroller, dropped by, as did Daniel Dromm, the teacher who is running for City Council in Queens. Dromm defeated Helen Sears, a sitting Council member, in yesterday’s primary.

Liu told me that he owes the teachers union for his victory yesterday. “Teachers have a massive impact. They have delivered in ways I could never have expected,” he said.

Before that, he spoke to the members of the delegate assembly, saying, to thunderous applause, “I’m going to take a very powerful microscope to what the Department of Education does.”

“We need you back in 13 days!” he added.

UPDATE (5:26pm): The delegate assembly meeting is as crowded as it was when Randi Weingarten announced that she would resign. Some delegates are leaving because it is so crowded.