{"id":15434,"date":"2025-10-24T20:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/15434\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T20:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T20:33:14","slug":"hakeem-jeffries-endorses-zohran-mamdani-for-new-york-city-mayor-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/15434\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakeem Jeffries Endorses Zohran Mamdani For New York City Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) endorsed Zohran Mamdani<\/a> for New York City mayor on Friday, one day before early voting starts Saturday.<\/p>\n

In a last-minute statement to The New York Times<\/a>, Jeffries said it\u2019s time to unite against the \u201cexistential\u201d threat of President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cZohran Mamdani has relentlessly focused on addressing the affordability crisis and explicitly committed to being a mayor for all New Yorkers, including those who do not support his candidacy,\u201d Jeffries said in the statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn that spirit, I support him and the entire citywide Democratic ticket in the general election,\u201d Jeffries added.<\/p>\n

The endorsement comes after months of pressure for Jeffries and other Democratic leaders to endorse Mamdani, a state assemblymember and democratic socialist who recent polling shows is likely to win the mayoral race.<\/p>\n

Mamdani is up against former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), who he trounced <\/a>in the Democratic mayoral primary in June. Cuomo, who is now running as an independent<\/a>, ultimately resigned from his job as governor in 2021 over sexual harassment allegations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a Wednesday debate, Mamdani made sure to remind Cuomo<\/a> of the allegations against him.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2021, 13 different women who worked in your administration credibly accused you of sexual harassment,\u201d Mamdani said during the exchange<\/a>. \u201cSince then, you have spent more than $20 million in taxpayer funds to defend yourself all while describing these allegations as entirely political. You have even gone so far as to legally go after these women. One of those women, Charlotte Bennett, is here in the audience this evening. You sought to access her private gynecological records.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cuomo has denied the allegations, and responded to Mamdani by saying that the cases against him were dropped. He did not mention that he paid $450,000<\/a> to settle a lawsuit from an ex-aide who alleged he sexually harassed and groped her while he was in office. <\/p>\n

Trump has threatened to withhold federal funding<\/a> from New York City should Mamdani win.<\/p>\n

\u201cSelf proclaimed New York City Communist, Zohran Mamdani, who is running for Mayor, will prove to be one of the best things to ever happen to our great Republican Party<\/a>,\u201d Trump posted on Truth Social<\/a> last month. \u201cHe is going to have problems with Washington like no Mayor in the history of our once great City.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump repeated his talking point during a White House roundtable on Thursday, while also acknowledging Mamdani\u2019s likely win.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd now it looks like they\u2019ll have a communist mayor in New York,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThat\u2019ll be a lot of fun. But remember this: they have to go through the White House.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) endorsed Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor on Friday, one day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4008,9,24,55,54,56,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-15434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-hakeem-jeffries","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-city-news","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434","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=15434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}