Sour Jeffries Says Mamdani Has 'Work To Do' After His Candidates Oust House Incumbents
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The House minority leader told CNN the mayor is going to have to patch things up with congressional Democrats following Tuesday's primary upsets.

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.”

  • Captain_Patchy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    “TOP Democrat” Needs to realign himself to the new political reality that being “republican light” is only going to lose them votes and seats.

    The PEOPLE want better!

    Mandami and the Democratic Socialists are what people will actually come out and actually vote for. Jeffries needs to get his ass on the train or get left behind.

  • almost_genocide@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Jeffries, Biden, Pelosi and Schumer all need to be thrown in prison along with Trump and the rest of the pedophile class they’ve been enabling for decades.

    • Reddfugee42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      And then there’s shit takes like this. Pelosi has made certain repubs eat a shit sandwich in her day. It’s just that her day was over a long fucking time ago and she refuses to see it

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Compromise on everything. Go in stating a desire to compromise so republicans know they mean it. Hell, compromising before they even start talking to really show how serious they are.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    15 hours ago

    Mamdani doesn’t have to smooth things over with anybody.

    Also, it’s pretty silly that Jeffries would say he needs to have conversations with “members of congress,” seeing as those people lost, so they won’t be members of congress for very much longer.

    Also, he’s the mayor of NYC, what the fuck does Congress have to say about anything he does?

    Jeffries is acting like his own picks are the word of god and isn’t taking responsibility for the fact that he’s a milquetoast centrist who accepts AIPAC money and that the voters don’t like his picks.

    Maybe if Mamdani’s picks are the ones who won the primaries then that just means Mamdani is more in touch with the average democratic voter. Maybe Mamdani should be the house minority leader, eh?

    Mamdani isn’t the one who has to explain himself.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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        12 hours ago

        It’s not as simple as that. Many are, yes, but there’s also the progressive caucus and many who refuse to compromise on their integrity. AOC, Raskin, and many others.

        Conversely, as someone already pointed out, there are also corrupt, corporatist state Dems, and probably even local ones too. It’s not the level of government that makes the corruption, it’s the sources of funding and how those influence their voting record.

        Are they primarily funded by small donors and grassroots effort, or large donors and shadowy PACs? Do they serve their constituents or the oligarchy? These are the indicators we should focus on, not whether they’re state, local, or federal.

        The problem with the Democratic Party establishment is that it’s run by milquetoast, centrist, corporatist Dems who in any sane country would be considered center-right. There are plenty of disruptors within that party and they’re gaining a lot of momentum and influence, but they just haven’t risen to the echelons of Democrat leadership yet. I think they will within our lifetimes, if we can pull our democracy out of this death spiral with the constitutional order still intact.

        Honestly, I think the silver lining to all that’s happening now is that it’s really spurring people towards the progressives. And as people continue to see in larger numbers that progressive policy works (as in, it actually helps ordinary people and also as in it’s an electable platform), I think that momentum will become unstoppable.

        I don’t want to jinx anything but within the next few election cycles I think we’re going to start seeing the progressive caucus really start to increase their influence and eventually claim a majority within the Democratic Party.

        And hopefully that happens as the Republican party continues to fracture and shoot itself in the feet repeatedly as their ship sinks faster and faster, because all they know how to do is subvert, slander, lie, and manipulate, and people are catching on.

      • 7101334@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        …and many state-level too, like Gavin Newsom and Scott Wiener. (As a Californian I am compelled to work “Fuck Newsom” into as many comments as possible.)

  • BillCheddar@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    The absolute best thing that could happen to the Democratic Party would be for Mamdani to become the Boogeyman, the new Pelosi or Hillary Clinton.

    He needs to be the one person that Fox News slanders daily, who every Republican child grows up learning to reflexively identify as the Liberal Villain.

    Whe? Because he’s a man and having a man as that target instead of a woman (AOC etc) should be worth 3-4 points in every election. We use their sexism against them, and we use his religion to honey-pot these fascist halfwits into making Mamdani the public face of the party.

    So yeah, this fight with Jeffries? HUGE WIN for Mamdani. He probably gained more power today than he gained when he took office.

    • mysticalone@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      I don’t want a new pelosi or hillary or kamala. Those 3 are the same people. Give me AOC, Michelle Obama, Crockett…

      • 7101334@lemmy.world
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        14 hours ago

        AOC Pelosi voted to arm Pissrael. Yes, ‘defensive’ arms for a genocidal regime waging constant wars of aggression are still arms for a genocidal regime waging constant wars of aggression.

        Michelle Obama is the wife of a war criminal (and gave school children shit lunches lol)

        Crockett is owned by AIPAC.

        Try Ilhan Omar or Corey Bush, some of the only politicians that have a soul left… well, Corey Bush isn’t a politician anymore, thanks to AIPAC.

      • BillCheddar@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        That’s because you’ve missed my point entirely.

        The point is that there is always someone who the right treats as the EVIL LIBERAL STEPQUEEN. Regardless of her politics, that’s what they do.

        Having a man in that role lessens the effect, so it’d be good if we do that.

        This has nothing to do with anyone’s left-liberal-moderate politics and everything to do with the vast, right-wing propaganda machine that we have to work around.

  • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    So now both Democrats and Republicans are going to use facebook’s and Instagram and content creators to highlight and spread content about how bad Mamdani is doing. Which they have ease of access now since the political left removed themselves from all digital conservations and spaces that are not 100% left.

  • godsammitdam@lemmy.zip
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    23 hours ago

    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.”

    More like establishment Dems are scared they’ll finally have to do work at all. Why don’t you write a strongly worded letter to Mamdani? Or is that too harsh an action given that’s the same level of opposition you’ve had against Trump?