Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries hesitated to endorse Democratic New York City mayor contender Zohran Mamdani however praised his “profitable” marketing campaign and messaging.
“I’ve not,” Jeffries stated when requested by “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl if he had endorsed Mamdani.
Jeffries stated he spoke to Mamdani on Wednesday however plans to fulfill in individual quickly in Central Brooklyn.
“I congratulated him on the marketing campaign that he ran, a marketing campaign that clearly was relentlessly targeted on the excessive value of dwelling in New York Metropolis and the economic system. He outworked, he out communicated, and he out organized the opposition, and that is clearly why he was profitable,” he stated.
Pressed on why he’s holding again from endorsing Mamdani, Jeffries stated, “We don’t actually know one another effectively.”
“Effectively, our districts do not overlap. I’ve by no means had a substantive dialog with him. And in order that’s the following step when it comes to this course of … to debate his imaginative and prescient for transferring the town ahead and addressing the problems which might be necessary to the communities that I characterize,” he stated.
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