House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will endorse Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor Friday, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.
The nod is coming after months of pressure and just before early voting begins Saturday.
Jeffries will join Gov. Kathy Hochul and other senior New York Democrats who’ve announced their support for the democratic socialist after keeping him at arm’s length since his surprising Democratic primary victory in June. One of the people who spoke to POLITICO, who’s close to one of the two camps, said the announcement will come Friday afternoon in the form of a statement, rather than an event.
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yesman@lemmy.world · 95 pts · 299d
Democrats will always do the right thing, after having exhausted every other option.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 299d
Jefferies is a neoliberal, it's a square/rectangle thing, and he's still a Dem....
But that wing just lost control of the DNC, so it's an important distinction to make.
We can't afford to depress turnout in the next Dem primary, because that's the only shot a neoliberal has of winning. And if they go on to win the general, they name a DNC chair and we're right back where we started 30 years ago.
No matter what, we can't allow them to take control of the DNC again, because they don't care if maga wins as long as they stop progressives
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 11 pts · 299d
ultranaut@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 299d
The neoliberal faction is as weak as they have ever been right now.
EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 299d
Stopping progress has always been the role of the party.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 299d
Yeah bro, FDR is basically the same as trump
/S
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 299d
No but FDR was the compromise to prevent revolution
Citation for those who want to avoid history
https://www.hoover.org/research/how-fdr-saved-capitalism
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 299d
Sure he was...
Just like SDF is a super cereal instance where people debate well thought out points, definitely don't just spout ridiculous nonsense about serious topics to get a reaction
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 299d
Starting to understand why you still think neoliberalism is on the way out of the dnc...
And if we're going to insult people based on instances, really in a glass house while on world...
EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 299d
While rocking that .world echo chamber instance
hddsx@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 299d
Bloody hell, this is what your comment made me think:
Republicans are rectangles, most democrats are squares. Republicans have been changing the size and shape of their original somewhat square hole to be smaller and thinner so former republicans who don’t fit anymore just use the square hole instead of the rectangle hole. Sure, we’d like to vote for a semi circle, or even a circle. But we can only use the square hole. Because there are still a lot of pieces that use the rectangle hole. And if we use the circle hole, or the semi circle hole, or even the bridge hole, the skinny demented rectangles win. So we all have to use the square hole.
But square and non-skinny rectangles, while they like to win and beat the skinny rectangles, still want everyone to be a square. They will only support circles if there are no squares or rectangles left to support.
In case anyone hasn’t seen it, here is square hole: https://youtu.be/cUbIkNUFs-4
Now we just need the redemption video where we all go into our own separate holes….
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 299d
We will absolutely go back to the way it was 30 years ago because time is a flat circle and humans are unoriginal.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 299d
Wooo summer of free love coming back baby
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 298d
And, eventually, the Summer of Ska
EmpireInDecay@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 299d
Even then they get it wrong
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 299d
And doing everything they can to undermine anything that helps the working class behind closed doors
SGGeorwell@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 299d
He waited so long his endorsement is now irrelevant. I guess he was waiting for Elmo to tell him what to do.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 299d
I mean its still relevant in that it shows Jeffries extraordinary triangulating, and complete inability to both read the political moment, and then adapt to it. This hurts Jeffries even more than just not doing anything.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 299d
What a complete fucking 🤡
This whole drama only hurts Jeffries, who won't have a job in government come next election cycle.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 299d
He's only doing it now because it's clear Cuomo will lose. If the race had been tight at all, they would have withheld endorsing anyone until the race was over.
AshMan85@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 299d
Oh, someone finally realized their job was on the line
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 299d
And all it took was one senator suggesting that Ocasio-Cortez should run for president.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 299d
More like Cuomo finally bombing enough they had no choice but to back the one who would win
frustrated@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 298d
What a cowardly bitch. Waited for the last possible moment once it was clear he had no other choice. God I hate Hakeem Jeffries.
marietta_man@feddit.nl · 0 pts · 298d
frustrated@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 297d
I'm surprisingly easy to please. You just need to semi-consistently represent the interests of your constituents. Easy peasy. Jeffries has been called to endorse Mamdani since July. He waited until the last few days before the election, instead of actively dissuading Cuomo from running by endorsing the clear primary winner. As a result, Mamdani spent the entire summer having to deal with attacks from someone in his own party rather than expounding on his (extremely popular) platform.
It is generally a bad sign for a party that wants to call itself 'Democrat' to reject the clear democratic will of the people in your own primary. Call me unreasonable for noticing.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 299d
LL: Democrats are genociding fascists! Why don’t they endorse Mamdani???
Local Dem Chapters: *endorse Mamdani early, are vocal supporters*
NY Dems: *top-out donations from Democrats*
Dem house leader: *endorses Mamdani*
LL: Dems suck!
SSDD