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….