"Time and time again, Jeffries has refused to endorse his own party's official candidate for mayor in his own city, two months after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York by double digits including Jeffries' own congressional district by eight points. This is the same Democratic party leader who has insisted in the past that progressives should vote BLUE (no matter who). But centrists? Apparently, they're under no such obligation."
"If you want to understand why the Democrats are polling at their lowest point for more than three decades, look no further than these two uninspiring Democratic leaders in Congress. If you want to understand why 62% of Democratic voters say the leadership of the Democratic party should be replaced with new people, again, look no further than Jeffries and Schumer. Week after week, month after month, they embarrass themselves, undermine their colleagues and demoralize their voters. Theirs is a record of cowardice and capitulation."
Tim Miller, a former Republican spokesman, publicly praised Zohran Mamdani and pressed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries about an endorsement. Jeffries declined to endorse Mamdani and said Mamdani was the only candidate he was scheduled to speak with. Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic mayoral primary in New York by double digits, including an eight-point victory in Jeffries' own congressional district. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer also withheld an endorsement. Critics characterize these refusals as hypocrisy, claim they demoralize voters and colleagues, and link them to low Democratic polling and calls for leadership change.
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