{"id":15753,"date":"2025-10-25T01:47:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/15753\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T01:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T01:47:19","slug":"hakeem-jeffries-endorses-zohran-mamdani-months-after-democratic-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/15753\/","title":{"rendered":"Hakeem Jeffries endorses Zohran Mamdani months after Democratic primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffries.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> threw his support on Friday to Zohran Mamdani in the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/2025-mayors-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">mayoral election<\/a>, months after the Democratic socialist won the party\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn Democrat, who has frequently criticized the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), of which Mamdani is a member, issued a statement Friday afternoon announcing his support of the Mamdani campaign, stating that he \u201cdeeply respects\u201d the will of the primary voters. He cited Mamdani\u2019s commitment to addressing the city\u2019s affordability crisis as his primary reason for supporting the nominee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/politics\/hakeem-jeffries-endorse-zohran-mamdani-mayor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tNYC Mayor\u2019s Race: Hakeem Jeffries endorses Zohran Mamdani months after Democratic primary &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries threw his support on Friday to Zohran Mamdani in the ongoing mayoral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2302,80,2132,4008,1445,7976,9,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-15753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-2025-mayors-race","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-democrats","11":"tag-hakeem-jeffries","12":"tag-mamdani","13":"tag-mayoral-election","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nyc-headlines","18":"tag-nyc-news","19":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753","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=15753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}