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.
I don’t think there’s a figure out there but a big percentage of the GOP that resisted outright got voted out by MAGA. Many of them either left politics or became democrats. Money was more a secondary factor I think; keep in mind that Trump, even in its second term, had a hard time finding funds compared with the democratic establishment. Kamala had a lot more money to campaign with than Trump and still lost.