House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) says New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is going to have to smooth things over with congressional Democrats after backing several progressive candidates who ousted incumbents during Tuesday’s primary elections.

Asked if Mamdani’s endorsements were making him “enemies” with Democrats in Washington, D.C., Jeffries told CNN that he and Mamdani “strongly” disagreed over his primary picks ahead of Election Day.

Now, according to Jeffries, the mayor has serious “work to do in terms of the conversations that he’s going to have with members of Congress moving forward.”

  • arctanthrope@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    he has to apologize for being aligned with what voters want? isn’t that, as political scientists call it, the whole fucking point of democracy?

    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      You of course know that america isn’t really a democracy. It’s a republic by design. And of course what it is in reality is a whole nuther something.