House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday that New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani must prove his vision can be implemented before he endorses him.
Mr. Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, both New York Democrats, have been reluctant to embrace Mr. Mamdani, a democratic socialist who won the primary election in commanding fashion and whose push to address the city’s affordability challenges with free child care, free buses, higher taxes on the wealthy and businesses, and city-run grocery stores have made him a political lightning rod.
“The Assemblyman [Mr. Mamdani] has actually spoken pretty forcefully and strongly about the need to deal with affordability in the city of New York,” Mr. Jeffries said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Of course, we’ve got to figure out moving forward, how we turn proposals into actual plans so that he is successful if he becomes the next mayor, because we need the city to be sustainable, and certainly the communities that I represent which have been subjected to gentrification and housing displacement, these are all issues to be worked through, and we’ll continue to work through them.”…