House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will endorse Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor Friday, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.

The nod is coming after months of pressure and just before early voting begins Saturday.

Jeffries will join Gov. Kathy Hochul and other senior New York Democrats who’ve announced their support for the democratic socialist after keeping him at arm’s length since his surprising Democratic primary victory in June. One of the people who spoke to POLITICO, who’s close to one of the two camps, said the announcement will come Friday afternoon in the form of a statement, rather than an event.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    17
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    Jefferies is a neoliberal, it’s a square/rectangle thing, and he’s still a Dem…

    But that wing just lost control of the DNC, so it’s an important distinction to make.

    We can’t afford to depress turnout in the next Dem primary, because that’s the only shot a neoliberal has of winning. And if they go on to win the general, they name a DNC chair and we’re right back where we started 30 years ago.

    No matter what, we can’t allow them to take control of the DNC again, because they don’t care if maga wins as long as they stop progressives

    • Deceptichum@quokk.au
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      edit-2
      1 day ago

      One socialist winning is not the neoliberals losing control of the DNC, especially when its chaired by a shitheap who wants to be owned by the “good” billionaires.

    • hddsx@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      1 day ago

      Bloody hell, this is what your comment made me think:

      Republicans are rectangles, most democrats are squares. Republicans have been changing the size and shape of their original somewhat square hole to be smaller and thinner so former republicans who don’t fit anymore just use the square hole instead of the rectangle hole. Sure, we’d like to vote for a semi circle, or even a circle. But we can only use the square hole. Because there are still a lot of pieces that use the rectangle hole. And if we use the circle hole, or the semi circle hole, or even the bridge hole, the skinny demented rectangles win. So we all have to use the square hole.

      But square and non-skinny rectangles, while they like to win and beat the skinny rectangles, still want everyone to be a square. They will only support circles if there are no squares or rectangles left to support.

      In case anyone hasn’t seen it, here is square hole: https://youtu.be/cUbIkNUFs-4

      Now we just need the redemption video where we all go into our own separate holes….