{"id":16001,"date":"2025-10-25T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16001\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:40:08","slug":"key-moments-shaping-the-nyc-mayoral-race-as-early-voting-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/16001\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Moments Shaping the NYC Mayoral Race as Early Voting Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What happened: Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, endorsed Mamdani for mayor on Friday, a day before early voting was set to begin.<\/p>\n<p>Why it matters: Even as Mamdani has pulled in endorsements from previously skeptical party leaders, there have been notable holdouts, Jeffries among them. A <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/23\/nyregion\/nyc-mayors-race-progressives.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sharp critic<\/a> of the Democratic Socialists of America, Jeffries has had his differences with Mamdani, a democratic socialist. The endorsement is the latest sign that many mainstream Democrats are going to support their party\u2019s nominee, despite some reservations. But don\u2019t expect them to embrace all of Mamdani\u2019s left-wing message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happened: Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House Democratic leader, endorsed Mamdani for mayor on Friday, a day before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1912,1915,11574,1914,3656,1913,11573,11572,11571,1445,9,56,63,65,64,3655,11570,1446],"class_list":["post-16001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-adams","tag-andrew-m","tag-city-hall-park-manhattan","tag-cuomo","tag-curtis","tag-eric-l","tag-hakeem","tag-jeffries","tag-jessica-1981","tag-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-sliwa","tag-tisch","tag-zohran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001","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=16001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}