cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35624613
3 Sep 2025
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.
Jeffries is not alone in his brazen hypocrisy. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who represents the state of New York and lives in the city of New York, has also refused to endorse his own party’s official candidate for mayor of New York.
That the removal of leadership that has ran the party into the ground so hard is even in question speaks to how badly the internal structures of the party need reforming. We can’t keep pretending that a system that relies on informally pressuring officials to step down when they doggedly cling to power in spite of the will of the voters is going to work.