House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) endorsed Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor Friday — ending a months-long will-he-or-won’t-he wait.

The Brooklyn congressman endorsed the Democratic mayoral front-runner in a statement to the New York Times , noting that while the two have “areas of principled disagreement,” the party needs to unite in the face of the “existential” threat from President Trump.

“Zohran Mamdani has relentlessly focused on addressing the affordability crisis and explicitly committed to being a mayor for all New Yorkers, including those who do not support his candidacy,” the top House Democrat wrote in the statement. 4

The move comes less than two weeks before the Nov. 4 election, and after Jeffries and other national Democratic leaders awkwardly avoid

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