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Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., acknowledged on Sunday that he has not but endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York Metropolis, and confronted questioning as to why he has but to again the progressive candidate in his dwelling metropolis.
Jeffries made his remarks to Jonathan Karl on ABC’s “This Week,” including that he did converse with Mamdani on Wednesday to congratulate him on the marketing campaign “that clearly was relentlessly targeted on the excessive value of dwelling in New York Metropolis and the economic system.”
When requested what’s holding him again from endorsing the mayoral candidate, the Home minority chief mentioned he and Mamdani “do not actually know one another effectively.”
“Our districts do not overlap. I’ve by no means had a substantive dialog with him,” noting that it’s “the subsequent step by way of this course of.”
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Zohran Mamdani rolls up his sleeves throughout a marketing campaign occasion in New York, on Monday, June 23, 2025. (Adam Grey/Bloomberg)
Jeffries did say that the 2 of them have agreed to sit down down quickly “in central Brooklyn.”
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Senate Minority Chief Charles Schumer and Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries converse at a press convention on the U.S. Capitol on June 11, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Pictures)
Zohran Mamdani attends an occasion on the Nationwide Motion Community Home of Justice in Harlem, Manhattan, on June 28, 2025. (Kyle Mazza/Anadolu)
Mamdani has confronted controversy over a lot of his statements and positions. The democratic socilalist’s web site features a housing coverage doc that states that if he had been elected, his administration would “shift the tax burden from overtaxed owners within the outer boroughs to dearer properties in richer and Whiter neighborhoods.”
He has additionally confronted scrutiny for anti-Israel positions, resembling help for the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” motion focusing on the Jewish state. He has additionally said that, if elected mayor, he would have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if he visits the town.
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Regardless of this, Mamdani got here out on prime in final week’s Democratic mayoral major, defeating rivals resembling former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Within the common election, he’s slated to face Republican Curtis Sliwa and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who’s working as an Impartial.