House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) explained that he will not endorse Zohran Mamdani, the New York City Democratic mayoral nominee, without a “substantive conversation.”
Mamdani won the nomination earlier this week as a socialist candidate. The 33-year-old defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the election determined by ranked choice voting. Jeffries had already endorsed incumbent New York City Mayor Eric Adams as his No. 2 choice but continued to deny Mamdani his endorsement during a live interview with ABC News’s This Week.
“Mamdani won a big victory. Have you endorsed him yet?” host Jonathan Karl asked Jeffries on Sunday.
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“I have not. We had a conversation on Wednesday morning where I congratulated him on the campaign that he ran, a campaign that clearly
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