Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is trotting out elected officials from his party’s varied ideological factions this week in a not-so-subtle effort to ramp up pressure on New York’s top political leaders — who so far have refrained from throwing their weight behind his campaign.

Most prominently, Gov. Hochul , U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries — the Empire State’s most powerful elected Democrats — have withheld support of Mamdani despite his decisive primary win in June, a sign that the party’s establishment remains wary of his left-wing agenda.

The reticence around jumping on the Mamdani train has highlighted an identity crisis of sorts playing out inside the party as its leaders wrestle with whether the 33-year-o

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