{"id":15176,"date":"2025-10-24T17:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/15176\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T17:11:10","slug":"zohran-mamdani-gets-endorsement-from-hakeem-jeffries-in-nyc-mayoral-election-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/15176\/","title":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani Gets Endorsement from Hakeem Jeffries in NYC Mayoral Election: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will endorse Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor on Friday, two people familiar with the decision told Politico on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The long-awaited endorsement from the New York congressman comes just ahead of the start of early voting on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Newsweek has reached out to the offices of Jeffries and Mamdani via email on Friday afternoon for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">This is a breaking news article. Updates to follow.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"10935332\" alt=\"\" caption=\"UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 23: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., conducts a news conference about the government shutdown on the House steps of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, October 23, 2025. (Tom Williams\/CQ Roll Call via AP Images)\" credit=\"\" sourcealt=\"\" sources=\"[]\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"8485\" height=\"5657\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;aspect-ratio:inherit;object-fit:cover\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/AP25296692464522.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will endorse Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[80,4022,10332,4008,1092,9,24,55,54,56,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-15176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-andrew-cuomo","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-endorsements","11":"tag-hakeem-jeffries","12":"tag-mayor","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-city-news","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15176","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=15176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}