{"id":14459,"date":"2025-10-24T01:28:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14459\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T01:28:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T01:28:14","slug":"jeffries-teases-ny-mayoral-endorsement-praises-mamdani-on-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14459\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffries Teases NY Mayoral Endorsement, Praises Mamdani on NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries teased a public endorsement in the hotly contested New York City mayor\u2019s race in coming days, praising Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani\u2019s commitment to leaving the current police commissioner in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The top House Democrat, a Brooklyn native, said that Mamdani took a \u201cstrong step\u201d in Wednesday night\u2019s debate by saying he would retain Jessica Tisch to lead the Police Department, if elected. Jeffries has avoided weighing in on the race for months but promised an endorsement before early voting starts on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries teased a public endorsement in the hotly contested New York City mayor\u2019s race&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8569,98,609,10753,9,24,2215,11,10,87,6078,5863,6648],"class_list":["post-14459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-august","tag-brooklyn","tag-government","tag-hakeem-sekou-jeffries","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-police-department","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-politics","tag-u-s-democrats","tag-u-s-republicans","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}