before their disagreement\u00a0<\/a>over the now-mayor-elect.<\/p>\n![\"New](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/new-york-city-mayor-elect-115165577.jpg\")
Jacobs has been a staunch Hochul ally \u2014 at least\u00a0before their disagreement\u00a0over the Mayor-elect Mamdani (above). James Keivom<\/p>\n
He declined to discuss his private conversations with the governor, though it\u2019s hard to believe he would say he\u2019s remaining as chair without an understanding with Hochul.<\/p>\n
Jacobs also doubles as the Democratic leader in Nassau County, where Republicans won the key races in November, in part by tying their opponents to democratic socialist Mamdani.<\/p>\n
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In a previous interview, Jacobs emphasized that the Democratic Party is a \u201cbig tent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe party is not just a progressive party. We\u2019re a progressive, moderate party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Besides ideological differences, Jacobs said he had personal reasons for not endorsing Mamdani, a vocal critic of Israel.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy mom left Nazi Germany in 1939,\u201d he said, noting that unfortunately many of his relatives were killed in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n
\u201cI also thought it was important to stand up for Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right on, Jay! Longtime state Democratic leader Jay Jacobs is staying on as leader next year despite\u00a0refusing to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[651,24539,57,9,24,55,54,56,58,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-42625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-democratic-party","9":"tag-jay-jacobs","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42625","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=42625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Longtime state Democratic leader Jay Jacobs is staying on as leader next year despite\u00a0refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani\u00a0as party\u2019s nominee for New York City mayor. CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images<\/p>\n