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.

  • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    16 days ago

    Yes, it is.

    They are, in the purest sense of the term, traitors. They have overtly and deliberately betrayed their own party and their voters.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      They are, in the purest sense of the term, traitors.

      What are you talking about? They’ve been loyal to their corporate masters for their entire careers. They are, if anything, too unwavering in their dedication to see the writing on the wall.

      • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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        16 days ago

        he’s a corporate democrat like most of the leadership is and was never on anyone’s side besides the ruling class.