House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries smacked down the notion that socialist mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani is the future of the Democratic Party, but gave a jumbled rationale for why.

“No, I think the future of the Democratic Party is going to fall, as far as we’re concerned, relative to the House Democratic Caucus and members who are doing great work all across the country,” Jeffries (D-NY) told CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Jeffries had begrudgingly endorsed Mamdani late last month , after dragging his feet since June on whom he would back in New York City’s mayoral race.

The Brooklyn Democrat commended Mamdani for being “relentlessly focused on addressing the affordability crisis” while acknowledging “there will be areas of agreement and areas of principled disagreement.”

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