Posted on 10/24/2025 11:52:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The powerful Brooklyn Democrat plans to endorse the democratic socialist Friday afternoon.
The long-awaited nod from Jeffries is certain to prove divisive in the fractured party as it seeks a path out of the political wilderness ahead of next year’s midterms. Jeffries’ decision leaves Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as the last key person in state Democratic leadership to withhold support from Mamdani.
Before the expected endorsement Friday, Jeffries sought to keep the focus on the federal shutdown.
“Stay tuned,” he told reporters in Washington, giving his stock reply on a Mamdani endorsement. “I have not refused to endorse. I have refused to articulate my position, and I will momentarily, at some point, in advance of early voting.”
Today’s endorsement of the front-runner is coming after a process that included two in-person meetings in Brooklyn and pressure from congressional progressives. Jeffries faced relentless questioning from reporters and has offered the coy guidance to “stay tuned” on multiple occasions. The minority leader has said he remains focused on steering Democrats back to a House majority in 2026, and some of his moderate battleground members see the progressive Mamdani as a liability.
Jeffries lauded Mamdani’s focus on affordability after the 34-year-old state lawmaker’s upset primary win, but he has also cited the democratic socialist’s refusal to denounce the phrase “globalize the intifada” as a point of concern and has questioned how he’d implement his policies and combat antisemitism as well as gentrification.
“We’ve got to figure out moving forward how we turn proposals into actual plans so that he is successful if he becomes the next mayor, because we need the city to be successful,” the Brooklyn Democrat told CNN last month. He noted that his district, which includes historically Black communities, has “been subjected to gentrification and housing displacement.”
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Disgusting turn of events. This is definitely the lesser of two evils vote...So hoping Cuomo wins by a landslide...
The election of Mamdani is the culminaion of the hedonistic decadence into which New York has devolved. He will win and then a reckoning will occur. Perhaps then post Mamdani, New York will again become decent and great.
coward.AOC owns him.
more than that, it is emblematic of how Dems have cowered before its antisemites Omar Tlaib etc and its leftie extremists AOC Squaddies...anything, anyone to retain power.
I assume he is seeing polls that show Mamdani is certain to win and he has nothing to gain politically by withholding an endorsement.
“””It’s time for Don Quixote Curtis Sliwa to step aside. “”
I agree but I don’t think the people that would vote for him will vote for either of the commies.
Agree...Cuomo can find him a place in Law Enforcement.
I think a lot of us would prefer to see Sliwa Mayor than Cuomo.
Talk about having no balls. Waits until three minutes before the election to “endorse” the commie . . .
Absolutely contemptible.
Jeffries knows Schumer is going to have to allow a vote to reopen the government, and Jeffries is positioning himself to take Schumer’s NY seat in the Senate.
They will eventually choke on these Mamdani endorsements.
Crime will skyrocket, cops will quit and more and more of the wealthy will leave the city.
Businesses are leaving!
Citywide Commercial Vacancy Rate: Approximately 18.5% (physical vacancy), translating to roughly 135 million square feet of vacant space. This is calculated based on aggregated data from major submarkets and remains near record highs. Right now people are leaving, what happens when Osama Mamdani walks in and stops arresting violent criminals.
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