{"id":165816,"date":"2026-03-17T02:48:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165816\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T02:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T02:48:28","slug":"house-minority-leader-hakeem-jeffries-endorses-rep-ritchie-torres-for-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/165816\/","title":{"rendered":"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries endorses Rep. Ritchie Torres for re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries endorsed Rep. Ritchie Torres on Monday in his bid for re-election to represent New York\u2019s 15th Congressional District, which covers a large portion of the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffries, who leads House Democrats as minority leader, praised incumbent Torres\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/congress-approves-over-15-million-in-federal-funding-for-bronx-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">record<\/a> representing the borough. Torres has represented the district in Congress since 2021 and previously served on the New York City Council, representing the 15th District from 2014 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/exclusive-hakeem-jeffries-endorses-ritchie-torres\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tEXCLUSIVE: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries endorses Rep. Ritchie Torres for re-election &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries endorsed Rep. Ritchie Torres on Monday in his bid for re-election to represent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[15627,22636,128,22637,68037,55622,4008,20846,35632,35633,22145,9,24,22638,63,2457,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-165816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-15th-congressional-district","tag-andre-easton","tag-bronx","tag-dalourny-nemorin","tag-district-15","tag-gonzalo-duran","tag-hakeem-jeffries","tag-house-minority-leader","tag-jon-latona","tag-jose-vega","tag-michael-blake","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny-15","tag-nyc","tag-ritchie-torres","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165816","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=165816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}