House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) endorsed Zohran Mamdani for mayor of New York City on Friday a long-awaited backing from the national Democratic leader as early voting in the mayoral election begins on Saturday.

Jeffries released a lukewarm statement of support to the New York Times, coming after months of pressure from his progressive flank to back Mamdani, a self-described socialist whom polls say is solidly the front-runner to succeed Mayor Eric Adams.

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He said he and Mamdani have “areas of principled disagreement” but that Mam

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