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.
And for every former Democrat who is now a Trump supporter, there are four non-voters who’d vote for a Democrat if they thought the party would actually fucking do something.
Note: The number 4 is an estimate based on my vast experience bitching about politics. A more rigorous measurement might yield a slightly different number.