City Councilmember Chi Ossé of Brooklyn has taken the first official step toward a Democratic primary challenge against House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the highest-ranking Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Ossé filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission on Monday to run in New York’s 8th Congressional District, which includes parts of Bedford-Stuyvesant and southern Brooklyn.

“The Democratic Party’s leadership is not only failing to effectively fight back against Donald Trump, they have also failed to deliver a vision that we can all believe in,” Ossé said in a statement.

Notably, the move comes without the backing of Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, a key figure in the city’s progressive political movement.

This primary would set up another generational and ph

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