House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) endorsed the Democratic Party’s nominee for mayor of New York, state Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani (D-Astoria), on Oct. 24 after months of calls to do so.
“Zohran Mamdani has relentlessly focused on addressing the affordability crisis and explicitly committed to being a mayor for all New Yorkers, including those who do not support his candidacy,” Jeffries wrote in a statement to The New York Times.
“In that spirit, I support him and the entire citywide Democratic ticket in the general election.”
Jeffries’s statement noted that he and Mamdani had “areas of principled disagreement.”
Mamdani describes himself as a “democratic socialist,” and Republicans have said they believe this reflects the Democratic Party’s overall shift, especially following Mamdani’s victory in the party primary….
Jeffries Endorses Mamdani for Mayor of New York
